Re: “Niederndorf, Germany....more than 700 miles from London.”
OK.
A 700 mile radius, then.
As the crow flies, Berlin is less than 650 miles from London.
Niederndorf is less than 450 miles.
By the way, both sides of my family emigrated from Germany in the late 1820s.
They were Lutheran ministers-farmers, they transited through a Lutheran community in western New York state, and were granted farmland in northwestern Illinois.
Two of my great-great grandfathers fought, and were wounded, in the Civil War.
The “German” side of my family, in parens because there really wasn’t a Germany as such at the time and some of them were from outside what eventually became Germany but spoke German, have been described as “pacifists” but that’s not quite true, they were forbidden to take up arms in a war but they did serve notably as musicians, also as medics and spiritual guidance, in both the Revolution and the Civil War. They were Moravians from North Carolina.