Nueva Germania (New Germania) is a district of San Pedro Department in Paraguay. It was founded as a German settlement on August 23, 1887 by Bernhard Förster, who was married to Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, sister of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Förster's idea was to create a model community in the New World and to demonstrate the virtues of German culture and society.
In the town there are still many German remnants. There is a museum that exhibits memories of the town's origin.
It is located about 297 kilometres from Asunción, capital of the Republic of Paraguay.
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