Ahrens is a railway stop in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 16 km west of Greytown, en route to Kranskop. The railway stop is named after Wilhelm Ahrens, from 1880 to 1906 headmaster of the German school at Hermannsburg, 4 km northeast from here[1]
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↑ Raper, Peter Edmund. 2004. New Dictionary of South African Place Names. Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers
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