There are two towns named Nienhagen in Germany. One is a good size city near the Baltic Sea coast not far from the port city of Rostock. The other is a very small village about 37 miles to the east inland from the sea. It is only 2.6 miles south of Groß Wokern, the home of August Heiden and Heinrich Rambow. Use Nienhagen Lankreis Gustrow to find it online.

This was the hometown of Friedrich Heiden who was born in 1755 and died here in 1811. He is the most distant ancestor of the Monroe County Heidens which we have been able to find in the records...so far. He was the great grandfather of August Heiden, who was the first of the family to emigrate to America in 1873, one hundred and eighteen years after Friedrich's birth.
 

 
  1. August Heinrich Ernst Heiden born about 1783 died February 23, 1802
     

  2. Carl Johann Friedrich Heiden born December 16, 1821 died April 26, 1823 (Uncle of August Heiden)
     

  3. Christoph Ludwig Friedrich Heiden born March 19, 1825 (Uncle of August Heiden)
     

  4. Friedrich Heiden born 1755 married November 3, 1779 died August 26, 1811 (Great Grandfather of August Heiden)
     

  5. Heinrich JochimTheodor Heiden born December 3, 1827 (Uncle of August Heiden)
     

  6. Johann Heinrich Carl Jacob Heiden born January 25, 1818 (Uncle of August Heiden)
     

  7. Johann Jochim Diedrich Heiden born April 19, 1776 died November 21, 1827 (Grandfather of August Heiden)