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La Cumbrecita: A Slice of Bavaria in the Heart of Argentina
Published 5:43 AM EDT, Thu October 19, 2017
The town is nearly self-sustaining, and relies almost completely on renewable energy, recycles all its water and composts nearly all its organic waste.La Cumbrecita is a typical German mountain town with wooden-framed chalets, hand-painted decorations and flower boxes overflowing with red blooms — but it is a long way from Bavaria.The town was built from scratch on barren hillside in Argentina’s Sierras Grandes mountains southwest of Cordoba.The village sprung up in traditional alpine style, with restaurants serving hearty goulash, sausages and schnitzel along with steins of German beer.The town was founded by Helmut Cabjolsky, a Berliner who was working as a civil engineer for Siemens when he was transferred to Buenos Aires in 1932. He and his family yearned for the mountains of home.They visited a friend’s remote farm near Cordoba and fell in love with the area. Helmut bought 500 acres of barren land in 1934 and arranged for family members to come from Germany to help him build the town.Helmut planted thousands of trees and sold plots of land to family and friends on condition they design their homes in the style of a Swiss, German or Austrian village.
