San José was founded on 13 April 1887 and is known today as "Pueblo San José" and is located in the Coronel Suárez Partido (Department) of Buenos Aires Province. This colony was originally named Dehler by the first Volga German settlers in reference to the colony from which they had immigrated. Other settlers also came from Volmer.
San José was founded by the following 15 men and their families:
Martin (Martín) Sieben
Jakob (Jacobo) Schwab
Stephan (Estaban) Heit
Jakob (Jacobo) Schell
Konrad (Conrado) Schwab
Johann (Juan) Förster
Johann (Juan) Putbilopsky
Johann (Juan) Opholz
Nikolaus (Nicolás) Seib
Michael (Miguel) Schuck
Matthias (Matias) Schönfeld
Johann Peter (Juan Pedro) Phillip
Adam (Adán) Dannderfer
Gottlieb Diel
Heinrich (Enrique) Heim
These families were joined in 1907 by another group resettling from Hinojo.
- A complete index of the 2,350 burials in San José - Excel format - prepared by Horacio Agustín Walter.
- Deaths in San José (1917-1925) by Raúl E. Walter.
- Spanish web site for San José
- San José (Wikipedia) in Spanish
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Panorama of the San José area.
Source: Volga German Research Community on Facebook.
Plaque showing the founders of San José colony.
Source: Gerardo Waimann.
San José in 1914.
Source: Jorge Bohn.
View of the church in San José (2008).
Source: Gerardo Waimann.
Statue of Eduardo Casey, the owner of the British Company who sold land to the Volga German settlers of San José.
Source: Gerardo Waimann.
The house and school of the nuns of the Saint Spirit in San José (2008).
Source: Gerardo Waimann.