Town Gates of Teterow in the Mecklenburgian Switzerland

Teterow is a town of about 8,500 people which is only about 5 miles north of Groß Wokern, the home of August Heiden and Heinrich Rambow. It was the site of the marriage of August's mother, Christina Sophia Maria Elizabeth Heiden and Friedrich Leonhard Heinrich Stüve on November 14, 1844. Friedrich became the step-father of the then 6 year old boy.

Johann Carl Theodor Schmidt who was the husband of August Heiden's half-sister Friedericka Sophia Henrietta Johanna (Heiden) Schmidt, died here sometime around 1900. Their daughter, Marie Rudolphine Johanne Auguste (Schmidt) Dohmstritch wrote letters to August's wife in Michigan during the 1920s.


Teterow is called the Shield of the North or as they say in Lower German' Schilda des Nordens. A week end before Whitsun i.e. Pentecost, they celebrate their Altvorders (ancestors) by a traditional pike fish festival.

  1. Johann Carl Theodor Schmidt died before 1900
     
  2. Friedrich Leonhard Heinrich StÜve married Christina Sophia Maria Elizabeth Heiden on November 15, 1844. He was the step-father of August Heiden.