Relief over the tower portal.
The Protestant Lutheran St. Remigiuskirche was once the chapel of the palace, but as it has been repeatedly restored, nothing of the original is now left except some parts of the north transept. The old Evangelical Church at Ober Ingelheim dates from the thirteenth century.

It is a handsome building, adorned with painted windows epresenting scenes in the life of Charlemagne.
It was restored about 1875.

FROM GERMANY TO PENNSYLVANIA

The German emigrants who came to Pennsylvania between the years, 1683 and 1776 were almost entirely from South Germany, especially the Palatinate, Wurtemberg, and also from Switzerland.

The greatest exodus of Palatines to Pennsylvania occurred about the year 1740. Numerous pamphlets, letters and the like were distributed freely throughout South Germany, setting forth the advantages to be derived from the civil and religious liberty, and privileges for Protestants, to be enjoyed in Penn's Colony over the sea.

Being young, unmarried and no doubt of an adventurous spirit, Johann Andreas Strassburger, in the late summer of 1742, set sail from Rotterdam, in the ship Loyal Judith, James Cowie, Captain. The vessel reached Philadelphia about September 1, for on the third of the month he with the other passengers subscribed to the oath of qualification, signing his own name:

Upon the list made out by the Captain of the vessel, the entry reads Andrews Strasburger, aged 25.' As a matter of fact he was over twenty-six and a half years old, but the ages of passengers, as given by the masters, were more or less approximate.

THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS
It is only just to say that to all that has gone to build up
Pennsylvania, to enlarge her wealth, to increase her property, to educate her people, to give her good government from the first, the German element of the people has contributed its full share. It is the religious spirit, the love of industry, the peaceful disposition of its people, which has placed the great State of Pennsylvania in the foremost ranks of the great American nation. The story of the privations, the fortitude, and the patriotism of these early German emigrants is blended with that of the other elements of the composite people which formed the base of the grand structure of American nationality.

They did not leave the Fatherland to seek power and glory in the wilderness to which they emigrated. They forsook their native country and braved the perils of the deep in search of a land where they might enjoy liberty of conscience. Nor did they come empty-handed, being for the most part the well-to-do, not the paupers, of the Old World.

Brazil was colonized by the Portuguese but also received a large group of immigrants from other countries,
mostly from Germany, Italy, Holland, France, Spain and Japan in addition to Africans who arrived as slaves.
Thus, the Brazilian culture is a rich blend of many ways of living reflected in its food,
clothes, religions, literature, music and arts.
Immigration to Brazil began when the country opened its ports to "friendly nations" (1808), and gathered momentum in the wake of the Declaration of Independence (1822). This, of course, does not include the Portuguese, who colonized the country (discovered in 1500).
Besides focusing on voluntary settlement by immigrants, one should also recall that millions of Negroes were forced to cross the Atlantic in chains from the XVIth to the XIXth centuries to serve as slave labour in Brazil.
Brazil's emperors sought to attract European immigrants to the south of the country by offering them plots of land that they were entitled to work as smallholders.