The 1800s and Beyond
The town in which the Nehrenz's lived during the 1800s was Trollenhagen in Mecklenburg-Strelitz Germany. They left there in Oct. 1869 to come to Cleveland, Ohio. Trollenhagen is a tiny village 3 km north of the famous city of Neubrandenburg, Germany. This is a graphic of the 4 city gates in Neubrandenburg, for which the city is renowned. The body of blue water is the Tollensee lake south of the city. Surely our Nehrenz ancestors had reason to come in from the farming village of Trollenhagen into the city of Neubrandenburg, a mere 3 km away!
This is the present-day church door in Trollenhagen where Nehrenz's entered to be baptized, confirmed, married, and buried.
This is the peak of the church in Trollenhagen
This is Noyes St. in Cleveland, Ohio (now W. 12th St), where various members of the Johann Christian Theodor Nehrenz family lived in the 1870s and the 1880s after leaving Trollenhagen, Germany in 1869.