Quinta Heeren - Belgian and German Legation
Quinta Heeren - U.S. Legation
One of the most beautiful architectural monuments of the nineteenth century in Lima is the Quinta Heeren. It was built as a residential housing Austro-Hungarian style in 1880, and that of Juan Manuel Ugarte Eléspuru "(the vision) gives the impression of being transported by a magic carpet to Prague, Krakow and Bratislava ..." is currently the Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Oskar
Antonio Federico Augusto Heeren was born in Hamburg on November 27, 1840, son of Karl August Heeren and Ramona Maria de los Dolores Graña Angela Baldomera Massa (born in Malaga, Spain). Comes to Japan in about 1868. In 1872 occurs the incident of the ship Maria Luz, Peruvian vessel carrying 225 coolies from Macao to Callao, which had a series of mechanical problems and was forced to make a stop in Yokohama to make some repairs. Being anchored in Yokohama, one of the coolies escapes the ship and port authorities complaint with Japanese and an English captain who suffered abuse, being released all the coolies and starting a legal dispute between the Japanese Empire and Peru. Thus
sent to Captain Aurelio Garcia y Garcia to Japan, and in 1873 interview with the Emperor Meiji, and after months of negotiations, signed the "Provisional Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Commerce and Navigation" on August 21, 1873, the first treaty Japan signed with a Latin American country. Oscar Heeren was so named Consul General of Peru in Tokyo, thanks to their help in the negotiations for the establishment of diplomatic relations between Peru and Japan.
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Heeren Heeren came to Peru in 1874 and settled in Lima , bringing the first Japanese immigrants to Peru in the nineteenth century (earlier in the colony had reached the middle of some Japanese and nineteenth century four shipwrecked Japanese) Ban Tats who worked as a technician in the Central Railroad train. That same year, accompanied by a group of Japanese engineers, conducted a prospecting trip in the mining region of Cerro de Pasco, in order to start a business. Heeren
travels Chandigarh where he acquired the Hda. San Carlos de 10 hectares, Barreda Ignacia married and had as sons Carlos and Carmen Heeren Barreda, Carlos Heeren Lucilia married Elijah (descendant of Domingo Elias) and marries Carmen Heeren José Pardo y Barreda (son of Manuel Pardo .) Company founded in 1890 Japan-Peru Mining Company in order to exploit the deposits of silver mine Carcahuacra (Junín), in partnership with the financier Korekiyo Japan Takahashi, bringing Japanese technicians to work. However, this society fails as soon ran out of ore.
Quinta Heeren today *
The Quinta Heeren in different periods were housed the embassies of Japan, Belgium, Germany, France and the United States of America. Was one of the areas of greatest comfort and relaxation in the late nineteenth century, given its location (in the block 12 Jr. Junín) then at the outskirts of Lima. Also, many artists and painters gathered to be inspired by the landscapes, gardens and sculptures. It has also been the scene of the suicide of Seiguma Kitsutani, Japanese businessman in the textile and mining and friend of Leguia, a prominent member of the Japanese colony that gave the Centenary of the Independence Monument Manco Capac (remembering to Peru's indigenous roots) , who on February 24, 1928, went bankrupt, committed suicide seppukku performing the rite. Over time, abandoning the Fifth has been declared to be currently at risk monument by UNESCO, although there are municipal projects for recovery of property. Heeren
Oskar died in Lima on February 8, 1909, being buried in the Cementerio General Presbyter Maestro Matías.
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* Third photo taken of: http://www.fotothing.com/Milibuh/photo/84ee8f35815b97b62df7dd01e3ee6a0a/
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