The actual German element of the micronation and how it came to be.
Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Principality of New Switzerland is enclaved in the city.
This year of 2020 makrs three years of the German-Swiss immigration. In 2017, rightly after the end of the Ebenthali Civil War, Ebenthal experience an unique influx of immigrants moving in with the arrival of three Swiss-Brazilians and three German-Brazilians, members of the Princely House of Arrais and it's cadet branch, the House of Scherer-Arrais, all coming from the Brazilian State of Santa Catarina to the Ebenthal Principality of New Switzerland. Coming from German and German-speaking Switzerland families which settled in the Catarinense cities of Antônio Carlos and Jaraguá do Sul following both World Wars, the House of Arrais is a native speaker of both Portuguese and German, more specifically, the local German dialect known as Katarinensisch, spoken by around 200.000 people and very similar and sometimes mistaken by the better-known and more widely spoken Riograndenser Hunsrückisch, whick is the mother language to 3.000.000 Brazilians. The first members of the Arrais family to settle in the present territory of New Switzerland did so in the early 21st century, moving to the Brazilian State of Rio de Janeiro's "alps", more specifically to the city of Nova Friburgo, in search of better working offers, being in a Germanic colonial city much closer to Brazil's second most important city. Years, following the successful endeavor of the first Arrais, parents to Prince Antônio I, other members of the family moved to what already was the Neo-Swiss cities of Bracara and Recceswinth. With 16 native-speakers of German making up the population of New Switzerland, the German was adopted a co-official language at the Principality and, out of both the total resident population and citizens of the country, German became the country's second most spoken native language, as well as one of the three languages spoken natively inside Ebenthali territory, along with the national language, the Portuguese, and the Spanish, spoken by the Bolivian workers in Sant'Anna, Aldiva.