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The municipality of Jaraguá do Sul (181,173 inhabitants in 2020, therefore
Santa Catarina's 8th most populated municipality; 53,259 ha) is located 180 km
north-west of Florianópolis.
Jaraguá do Sul was established in 1875 by
Emilio Carlos Jourdan, a Belgian-born engineer and honorary colonel in the
Brazilian army, who was invited to survey and register an area of 25 square
leagues in the
Itapocú valley; at the same time, he signed a private lease
contract for 430 ha of lands with imperial princess Isabel. The survey was
achieved within 50 days between February and April 1876. With the help of 60
workers, Jourdan initiated sugarcane cultivation and built a sugar mill, a saw
mill and a cassava mill. The Jaraguá Establishment was incorporated to Joinville
on 17 April 1883. Upset, Jourdan left in 1888 and the establishment was
suppressed in 1893.
In the aftermath of his support to the 1893
Revolution led by Marshal Floriano Peixoto, Jourdan required from the Governor
of Santa Catarina the grant of 10,000 ha to re-establish the Jaraguá colony,
which was accepted on 15 May 1895. Facing difficulties on the delimitation of
the concession and political adversity, Jourdan sold his estate on 1 June 1898
to Pecher & Cia and retired in Rio de Janeiro.
The district of Jaraguá was
established in 1895, depending on Joinville, to be transferred to Paraty in
1896. Some inhabitants attempted to establish a new municipality that would be
named Glória, merging with Barra Velha, but Jaraguá was eventually
re-established as Joinville's 2nd district.
The inauguration of the railway
in 1910 boosted the industrial development of Jaraguá and a pro-emancipation movement emerged in the
1930s.
The municipality of Jaraguá was established by State Decree No.
565 issued on 26 March 1934 and inaugurated on 8 April 1934, to be renamed to
Jaraguá do Sul by Decree No. 941 issued in 1943.
https://www.jaraguadosul.sc.gov.br/
Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 4 November 2021
The flag of Jaraguá do Sul is prescribed by Municipal Law No. 221 promulgated
on 14 October 1969.
Article 2.
The flag shall be with a
white cross in dimensions 0.433 m x 1.30 m (vertical) and O.4333 m x 1.90 m
(horizontal), charged in the center with the coat of arms of Jaraguá do Sul
prescribed by Law No. 203 promulgated on 29 November 1968, in full colors and
width 0.60 m, the red and green colors being arranged as follows [...].
Article 3.
The municipal flag of Jaraguá do Sul shall be quartered by a
cross and its colors shall have the following meaning.
The white color,
shaped like a cross, identifies the people's Christian spirit that fosters
friendship, purity, prosperity and work. In the cross' center, the coat of arms
represents the municipal government and symbolizes the town as the seat of the
municipality.
The red quarters identify fire burning in industrial ovens and
highlights the nickname of Metropolis of Dynamism. It also means valiance,
intrepidity, audacity, dedication, courage and love of the inhabitants. The
green quarters identify the forests with their innumerable small rural estates.
It also means hope, abundance, civility, courtesy, triumph, honor, glee and
highlights the nicknames of Rice Queen and Pearl of the Itapocú Valley.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/j/jaragua-do-sul/lei-ordinaria/1969/23/221/lei-ordinaria-n-221-1969-institui-a-bandeira-oficial-para-o-municipio
Leis Municipais database
The coat of arms of Jaraguá do Sul is
prescribed by Municipal Law No. 203 promulgated on 29 November 1968.
Article 2.
Imagined by Eugenio Vitor Schmockel and drawn by Moacyr Silva,
the coat of arms is described as follows.
The coat of arms of the
municipality of Jaraguá do Sul consists in a classical Portuguese shield,
symbolizing the primitive ethnic origin, surmounted by a five-towered mural
crown emphasizing the rank of town.
The shield is divided in four quarters
by a yellow cross recalling Christian faith, with the motto "Grandeza pelo
Trabalho" (Greatness Through Work).
The first quarter represents the town's
nickname, Pearl of the Itapocú (Valley), featuring the Boa Vista hill in
bluish green, the valley in light green, and river Itapocú by a wavy silver
stripe.
The second quarter represents the nickname Rice Queen, unofficially
adopted in a contest, featuring a colonist prepared to work, a sugarcane, the
primitive resource that once covered practically the whole area of the modern
town; and a maize cob, one of the main resources produced by the municipality
for years, especially from 1915 to 1925, then exported on a large scale all
over the country; the whole surmounted by two fructed rice plants, the
present-day's crop resource, all proper on a greenish white background.
The
third quarter represents the officially adopted nickname, ranked third in the
contest, Metropolis of Dynamism, featuring a symbolic industrial complex,
representing industry that develop swiftly, currently involving 240 factories
manufacturing some 90 different products, under a sky of the basic color of the
first quarter.
The fourth quarter is diagonally divided into two parts, the
first representing a tribute to the founder of Jaraguá do Sul, Belgian-born
Colonel Emilio Carlos Jourdan, through an heraldic lion taken from the arms of
Belgium, on a field argent with the figure red. The second part features an
heraldic eagle taken from the arms of Prussia, the eagle black on a field or,
as a tribute to the European colonists who walked for the first time on this
land in the colonization period and to their successors who tilled the soil
of Jaraguá do Sul.
The red scroll (a color of devotion and enthusiasm for
the home cradle) is inscribed with the name of the municipality and the dates
"1876" and "1934" - respectively the dates of foundation of the settlement and
of creation of the municipality by Decree No. 565 issued on 26 March 1934,
formed by the districts of Hansa (today, Corupá) and Jaraguá, inaugurated on 8
April 1934, separating from Joinville, and renamed to Jaraguá do Sul by
State Decree-Law No. 941 promulgated on 31 December 1943.
The basic colors,
green and red, are those of the flag of the Santa Catarina state.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/j/jaragua-do-sul/lei-ordinaria/1968/20/203/lei-ordinaria-n-203-1968-institui-um-brasao-para-jaragua-do-sul
Leis Municipais database
Photos
https://rbnfm.com.br/geral/prefeitura-de-jaragua-do-sul-esclarece-sobre-falso-concurso/
https://ocp.news/politica/veja-o-que-foi-aprovado-no-1-semestre-na-camara-de-vereadores-de-jaragua-do-sul
https://www.camarabrusque.sc.gov.br/web/noticia.php?id=3615:vereador-pirola-participa-de-visita-técnica-ao-centro-de-inovação-de-jaraguá-do-sul
https://sc.cut.org.br/noticias/em-jaragua-do-sul-governo-quer-acabar-com-recesso-de-fim-de-ano-dos-servidores-cf4c
Ivan Sache, 4 November 2021
