The village of Waimea East was renamed Ranzau, after Count Ranzau, a German nobleman who interested himself in the second German Settlement established in Nelson Province. The first German Settlement had been founded in the Moutere. It was promoted by a Hamburg mercantile firm named Messrs De Chapeaurouge and Co. Subsequently the Grand Duke of Mcchlenburg-Schwerin took an interest in the undertaking, and the Rev. J. W. C. Heine founded the township of Sarau better known in these days as The German Village. The Germans in the Moutere Valley originally numbered some 350. The number who settled at Ranzau was not so large—they came from Mechlenberg, in 1844, in the ship “Skiold,” and numbered 200 souls.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 1 May 1937, Page 6
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