New Ulm, Minnesota New Ulm, Minnesota Downtown New Ulm Downtown New Ulm Location of the town/city of New Ulmwithin Brown Countyin the state of Minnesota Location of the town/city of New Ulm New Ulm is a town/city in Brown County, Minnesota, United States.
Located in the triangle of territory formed by the confluence of the Minnesota River and the Cottonwood River, the town/city is home to the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, the Hermann Heights Monument, Martin Luther College, Flandrau State Park, and the August Schell Brewing Company.
New Ulm is the episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of New Ulm. The town/city was titled after the town/city of Neu-Ulm in the state of Bavaria in southern Germany. Ulm and Neu-Ulm are sister cities, with Ulm being situated on the Baden-Wurttemberg side and Neu-Ulm on the Bavarian side of the Danube river.
In their new land, Turners formed associations (Vereins) throughout the eastern, midwestern, and states, making it the biggest secular German American organization in the nation in the nineteenth century.
The German Land Company hired Christian Prignitz to complete a new plan for New Ulm, filed in April 1858.
This master plan for New Ulm expressed a grand vision of the city's future.
Historian Dennis Gimmestad wrote, "The founders' goals created a improve persona that sets New Ulm apart from the Minnesota suburbs founded by territory speculators or barns companies.
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The New Ulm framers aspired to establish a town with a defined philosophical, economic, and civil character." Between the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and America's entry into the conflict, the people of New Ulm closely followed affairs in Europe, with the small-town newspapers sometimes printing news from relatives and friends in Germany.
Given the German tradition of New Ulm, federal and state agents began to visit the town/city soon after America's entry into the conflict, filing reports to offices in Washington and St.
During World War II, German POWs were homed in a camp to the immediate southeast of New Ulm, in what is now Flandrau State Park.
In 1944 a New Ulm family was fined $300 for removing a prisoner from the camp, housing him and taking him to church. New Ulm Turner Hall, with the earliest section constructed in 1873, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Located at Center and State Streets, Defender's Monument was erected in 1891 by the State of Minnesota to honor the memory of the defenders who aided New Ulm amid the Dakota War of 1862.
The artwork at the base was created by New Ulm artist Anton Gag.
The Hermann Monument in New Ulm dominates the Minnesota River valley from a hill overlooking the city.
Through the accomplishments of Minnesota's 53 Sons of Hermann lodges, the monument was assembled in New Ulm, home to many German immigrants.
A monument to German-Bohemian immigration to America is positioned in New Ulm.
As more and more immigrants arrived, not all of whom could farm, they settled in the town/city of New Ulm and some of the small communities to the west and north.
New Ulm has been referred to as the City of Charm and Tradition.
New Ulm's glockenspiel is one of the world's several free-standing carillon clock towers.
In 1990, New Ulm offered its old library building for the hall of fame site.
Owing to the area's ethnic music heritage, the New Ulm was chosen.
Each year in October the exhibition holds a gala to induct new members into the Hall of Fame, known locally as Minnesota's Grammys.
Music was always a part of life in New Ulm, especially with the arrival of the musically-inclined German-Bohemians in the 1870s.
However, New Ulm took a primary leap to nationwide eminence in the 1920s. After him, other small-town bands such as those led by Harold Loeffelmacher, Babe Wagner, Elmer Scheid and Fezz Fritsche kept New Ulm well-known around the state and region.
With the opening of George's Ballroom and the New Ulm Ballroom and the start of KNUJ airways broadcast in the 1940s, New Ulm billed itself as the "Polka Capital of the Nation".
For years New Ulm's famous Polka Days were known around the world by polka lovers. The festival was held each year in July.
New Ulm, Minnesota, July 1974.
Local affairs held annually in New Ulm have jubilated the German culture through food, music, and beer.
New Ulm's Oktoberfest has been jubilated the first two weekends in October since 1981. Bock Fest, often scheduled concurrently with the small-town festivities for Fasching, has been jubilated since 1987 at the August Schell Brewing Company. The current summer festival, Bavarian Blast, was created as a recent re-interpretation of New Ulm's longstanding festival, Heritagefest.
New Ulm was the setting and recording locale of the 1995 autonomous film The Toilers and the Wayfarers, directed by Keith Froelich.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.26 square miles (26.57 km2), of which, 9.92 square miles (25.69 km2) is territory and 0.34 square miles (0.88 km2) is water. The Minnesota River and the Cottonwood River flow past the town/city on their way to the Mississippi River.
Enumeration Bureau released a report showing New Ulm has 65.85% of populace with German ancestry, more per capita than any other town/city in the U.S.
Ali Bernard, 2008 Olympic wrestler, born in New Ulm in 1986.
Joseph Bobleter, journal editor, Minnesota legislator, and mayor of New Ulm.
Kathryn Adams Doty, actress, born in New Ulm in 1920; married to actor Hugh Beaumont of Leave It To Beaver tv show fame.
Marion Downs, audiologist who pioneered newborn hearing screening, born in New Ulm in 1914. Coast Guard Rear Admiral, born in New Ulm in 1924.
Tony Eckstein, former Minnesota politician, legislator and New Ulm mayor, born in New Ulm in 1923. Wanda Gag, author and artist, born in New Ulm in 1893.
Tippi Hedren, film actress, born in New Ulm in 1930; She was the star of Alfred Hitchcock's classic The Birds; mother of actress Melanie Griffith and grandmother of actress Dakota Johnson.
John Lind, although born in Sweden, immigrated to the United States and called New Ulm his hometown.
Harold Loeffelmacher, polka band leader, born near New Ulm in 1905, organized The Six Fat Dutchmen in New Ulm amid the 1930s.
Brad Lohaus, retired National Basketball Association player, born in New Ulm in 1964.
William Pfaender, businessman, Minnesota state treasurer, and legislator; served as mayor of New Ulm.
August Schell moved to New Ulm from Germany in 1848, starting the August Schell Brewing Company.
He died in New Ulm in 1891.
Natalie Denise Sperl, actress, model, singer, born in New Ulm; star of cult film "Succubus Hell Bent' among other tv shows and films; former "Coors Light Girl." Terry Steinbach, former Oakland A's catcher, born in New Ulm in 1962.
Lenore Ulric, actress and movie star, born in New Ulm in 1892.
Whoopee John Wilfahrt, born in 1893, on a farm near New Ulm.
Cathedral High School (New Ulm, Minnesota) The Journal (New Ulm) New Ulm is twinned with: New Ulm Chamber of Commerce Alice Felt Tyler, "William Pfaender and the Founding of New Ulm," Minnesota History 30 (March 1949): 24-35; Grady Steele Parker, editor, Wilhelm Pfaender and the German American Experience (Roseville, Minn.: Edinborough Press, 2009).
Also see Rainier Vollmar, "Ideology and Settlement Plan: Case of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and New Ulm, Minnesota," address to the Brown County Historical Society, May 18, 1991, tape recording, Brown County Historical Society.
New Ulm Review, May 23, 1917.
Hoisington, A German Town: A History of New Ulm, Minnesota (Edinborough Press, 2004).
New Ulm Oktoberfest Media related to New Ulm, Minnesota at Wikimedia Commons City of New Ulm official website Web site of the Journal, New Ulm's daily journal New Ulm, Minnesota, Tourist Info New Ulm, Minnesota improve blog
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