Colonia Tovar: Venezuela's "Little Germany" Looks Like a Village in the Black Forest 

I’m a Venezuelan from Caracas and that place is magical and beautiful. I can say hands down it’s the best touristic place of Venezuela. Yes, you have better natural beauty in other places in the country but as far as man made places goes, nothing beats La Colonia Tovar.

OMG, Colonia Tovar ❤❤❤😁🇻🇪the best. So beautiful!!!

I went to La Colonia Tovar for my birthday and had dinner at the Bergland Hotel, the lady he interviewed was the recepcionist. The restaurant is absolutely gorgeous, and the food was delicious, although quite expensive

The town was founded by inmigrants from the Black Forest region, well knowned for their agricultural produce, hospitality industry and the Church of Saint Martin of Tours, lovely place and great weather. The town has kept many old traditions and customs by their descendents and the same can be said about thousands of german towns and cities all across the America's. Although is the best known, Colonia Tovar is just one of many towns and small cities founded in the late XIX and XX centhuries throughout Venezuela as agricultural colonies build and populated by inmigrants from all over west and central europe such as germans, austrians, swiss, italians, corsican, danes etc. The subtropical and tropical climate of venezuela's interior regions proved challenging for european inmigrants since colonial times, it meant adapting to new crops, life habits, a hot climate and above all, deadly malaria outbreaks, that's the main reason european settlement was not as throrough as in the southern cone of the continent or North America, is not until air conditioning possible thanks to electrification that population density of the tropical regions of the America's including many parts of the south of the USA increased. Who knows, perhaps when our national ordeal comes to past, a new generation of german farmers and entrepreneurs will have the fertile valleys and hills of Venezuela as their new home and write a new chapter in Venezuela's long (and little explored) history with Germany.

I noticed a clear venezuelan accent in the German spoken by the lady.

The colonia Tovar is a German town in venezuelan and the majority of the people in the town are of German roots, they speak German dialect and keep the German cultures, I remember going to colonia Tovar and it seem to me like I was in Germany, everything was german and even the people, not only in colonia tovar but through the whole country, since venezuela is the third country in Latin America with most Germans after Brazil and Argentina! 🇻🇪

Ich war letztes Jahr da und habe auch mit einem Einheimischen gesprochen. Das Bier hat mich, anders als Polar, an die Heimat erinnert :).

Fun Fact: The first Conquistadors to colonize Venezuela were German. The king of Spain at the time King Charles the the fifth was also Holy Roman Emperor as well if that makes any sense of German Conquistadors coming to the Americas.

I'm just starting to learn german and the lady's accent was super! I could clearly hear the venezuelan sounds and some bavarian sounds very interesting

I’ve been to Colonial Tovar when I lived in Venezuela. I had forgotten about it!

Thank you for taking notice of the origines of the Colonia Tovar, glad to know my pleas in the other video were taken in account.

Venezuela, belonging to the Spanish empire under emperor Charles V, was led by the Welser a powerful German family of Augsburg. The province in 1528 was called Klein Venedig and the small harsh city of Santa Ana de Coro at the NW, became the Neu Augsburg , its Capitaland. Cities like Neu Ulm (today Cabimas) and Neu Nuremberg (actual Maracaibo) were founded by the Welser and many of their descendants remained in towns as El Tocuyo , Barquisimeto, Quibor , Cuara and Sanare as well as many European immigrants such as Spaniards, Italians and Portuguese who came to Venezuela for what that there are many white people like in Argentina. The subtropical and tropical climate of Venezuela's interior regions proved challenging for european inmigrants since colonial times, it meant adapting to new crops, life habits, a hot climate and above all, deadly malaria outbreaks, that's the main reason European settlement was not as thorough as in the southern cone of the continent or North America, is not until air conditioning possible thanks to electrification that population density of the tropical regions of the America's including many parts of the south of the USA increased. Who knows, perhaps when our national ordeal comes to past, a new generation of German farmers and entrepreneurs will have the fertile valleys and hills of Venezuela as their new home and write a new chapter in Venezuela's long (and little explored) history with Germany.

I LOVE Venezuela und Deutschland ❤

j ai visité cette ville il y a 25 ans avec mon ami de Caracas. Ça me semble encore plus beau maintenant! J y ai tres bien mangé et bu. L air est frais et pur . C est tres pres de la ville donc un détour obligatoire pour un repas ou 2 3 jours. J y ai decouvert le chicheron.

Came curious for this knew report and ended up finding what I was looking for, thank you!!

I didn't appreciate the approach of the journalist. I felt he was subtly making fun of the city, and the language, calling it "funny old german."

Absolutely beautiful. For those that visit from other countries, go with a group or with locals. The areas between there and Caracas, including the roads, are extremely dangerous, unfortunately.

It's interesting to listen to a person speaking german with a center venezuelan accent.

What a nice short report!

Wobei der ,Ranzen’ als Ausdruck für ,Bauch’ zumindest im Schwäbischen bis heute Verwendung findet.

I love the way he give additional information about Argentina and Chile

So amazing.

I've been there so many times love it

Es lo más parecido a Alemania. Así de extraordinario es Venezuela, el mejor país del mundo.

genial, cool, gran visita

to be honest - I could understand the woman in the end better than the interviewer.

Looks beautiful, really wanna go there sometime ❤❤❤❤

Look amazing!

you should come to Mexico, in the north of the country there are people who speak german, well I think is a dialect, it would be great to watch a vídeo about them

Black forest ham.. Campesino bread, and the German white sauce.. Oh my.. That's what we used to buy there

🇩🇪🇻🇪🤠👍

Gracias por realizar el reportaje de la Colonia Tovar, mi familia por parte de mi padre son de la Colonia. Saludos

Die Dame am Ende konnte man jedenfalls ganz gut verstehen.

venezuela siempre recibido con mucho amor todos los extrajeros del mundo por desgracia por cuestiones políticas y economicas no se les recomienda venga ahora los extranjeros por pasamos una crisis muy fuerte

VENEZUELA Best Forever !

"When travelling south American there's one thing your sure to find: Germans" one of the funniest things I've EVER heard 🤣🙌🙌

The first germans, polish, czechs, flemish (belgians), swiss and maybe from other central european countries to set foot on continental mainland of New World was in 1529, so as to work as miners to search El Dorado in actual Venezuela . The leased colony by Emperor Charles V to the banker family of Welser was called "Klein Venedig" and its capital Coro was named "Neu Augsburg", Maracaibo "Neu Nüremberg" and Cabimas o "Neu Ulm". Some expeditions inland departed from Coro and El Tocuyo (also given a german name as Tocuyothal) searching for El Dorado. "Klein Venedig" didn't last long though, this was due to both poor results and complaints from miners and locals, thus Emperor Charles V didn't renew the contract to the Welsers (bankers from Augsburg). Some very old and forgotten cemeteries in NW Venezuela may have some surnames still, no idea. This was at a time when the portuguese were still exploring lands which soon later became Brazil and the spanish just arriving to Cuzco and the River Plate. 🇩🇪🇻🇪 🤠👍 That's right the reasons of the Welser expeditions was to find Eldorado for that, they didn't make a culture legacy and now Maracaibo (The principal city than they created ) doesn't have nothing of germ an culture appart of the Tovar colony established in 1842. But in the Second World War with the germans emigration they build and reapairs so much of his old colonies these new villages start to buiding to equaty than in otrers countries like Peru, Brasil, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina that's when they finally make a legacy in that's countries (Culture legacy). sorry for the fails in the coment, my english is not very nice . What is curious is the venezuelan liking for some central european tastes atypical for tropical latinamerica: maltzgetränke (malta), probably the highest per capita consumption in the world, tartar sauce for hot dogs (salsa tartara o la misma "alemana" para perros calientes), münster cheese (queso munster), dutch cheeses (quesos holandeses), smoked andean cheese similar to rauchkäse (queso ahumado andino similar al rauchkäse), the sulzer, polish style sausages for hotdog making (salchichas tipo polacas para perros calientes), the traditional potato (+ chicken & apple) christmas salad similar to austrian and german christmas salads (ensalada de papas navideña similar a la ensalada de papas navideña alemana). Appart, the "tradition" for the christmas pine tree (aparte, la "tradición" del pino navideño). Maybe more. It's probably related to a tiny "DNA memory" component as most of those foods were introduced way much later during the XX century. No research has ever been done about it though.

No sul do Brasil existe milhares de descendentes de alemães, pesquise por Gramado Brasil

Funny, it really looks a bit like my surrounding neighborhood 😀.

How do you move there as a tourist? Are busses running normally? Also regarding the chaos surrounding the currency and ATMs...what's that like nowadays?

Hermsa ciudad

Good morning beautiful world 🌎 this is my beautiful colonial tovar part of my land what part of my angels my family's brothers sisters We are One 🌎❤

There is a town like that in Peru called Pozuzo Peru very different from the rest of Peru.

Peru, Venezuela, Argentina… they are everywhere:)

I just know they've got that area locked down tight against any cartel. I imagine it's a if you don't mess with us we won't mess with you relationship.

You should go on a weekend, when there are more activities. A normal weekday is like that... almost no one on the street and no much to do. Come back again in a weekend!

My girlfriend in Venezuela is dying, if you feel kind will you help her please. Your little help can save her life. Will you do it please 🥺

This is the most beautiful time in The Weeknd😂❤❤

Approfittato senza di me que arrecho. 😊😢

Her old German is for me as a Dutch person better to understand and we use ranzig 😂

was this one of those towns that popped up after ww2?

Schlager fur Alle!! 😂

in Peru call OXAPAMPA

Most British are like that? Good but no the same... I guess that will do it. If you are not going to said something positive don't say anything. It's a bit arrogant from your side.

South america is pretty much underrated, and if you look at the places where white/europeans only live, it can really be a wonderful place

They did it mostly in the 40s.

I remember being there as a little kid I actually thought it was another country 😭

ARAGUA

Venezuela is pretty far from Argentina so how many Germans are there? When I was in Ecuador I also found a bunch of Germans and one guy pretended to not be one and he was like 98 and obsessed with gold lol we would ask if he was from Germany Austria or Switzerland and he'd swear he was from Ecuador in his Thick German Accent lol the town of vilcabamba had so many jokes about him haha

❤❤❤❤Schon

Germany Caribeam

Pasa por mi casa soy tamien yo capitalista o pa de mas el globo.

Is Claus Barbie there

Ich komme aus Venezuela und ich kenne sehr gut der colonia tovar .leider sehr wenig menschen jetzt dort koennen deutsch sprechen

Jajajajaja qué hacen en Venezuela, deberían venir a Perú 🇵🇪, la Gastronomía en Perú es superior en toda Sudamérica 🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

When I still had family in Venezuela I used to visit there 35-30 years ago. The strawberries and cream were excellent , I would also buy the local beer and spreelbrot..this was of course before Chavez and Maburro destroyed the country....but my favorite was stopping at neighboring El Junquito on the way back , famous for their deep fried pork platters with arepas and hallaquitas

Cuánto paga Maduro a estos canales para hacer publicidad de turismo en Venezuela?

Das Mädchen soll für ihre Familie Deutsch sprechen.

Where is Latino America? Must be a brit.

venezuela fue estados unidos de venezuela la migracion del mundo entero estubo allí

Ich denke, dass mehr Deutsche in das Tovar-Viertel ziehen sollten, damit die deutsche Sprache in dieser schönen Stadt nicht ausstirbt.

They went to Venezuela and others sa countries after the ww2.

Why do you think they came to America

Presidents just working fir his own benefits ❤😂

You were there to enjoy the place or to speak Deutsch?? Good to Germany and speak there!! Pajuoooo

Gross

Its more Dutch German then German what she speaks we say ranzig haha

I thought Venezuela was a country with very significant economic problems due to terrible political management. RS.

All this guy can do is whine and complain.

and no one speaks English....

These Germans have made their colonies throughout South America 😂

Just don't ask them where their grandfathers were doing in Ukraine and Poland in the early 1940s!

Holocaust commanding officers are resident of this town.

I wonder what the crime rate is...😂