Damshagen

This article describes the municipality of Damshagen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, for the place of the same name in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship (formerly Damshagen, district of Schlawe / Pommern) see Domasławice (Darłowo) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '  N , 11 ° 9'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Northwest Mecklenburg
Office :	Klützer Winkel
Height :	14 m above sea level NHN
Area :	38.43 km 2
Residents:	1265 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	33 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	23948
Primaries :	038825, 03881
License plate :	NWM, GDB, GVM, WIS
Community key :	13 0 74 016
Office administration address:	Schlossstrasse 1 23948 Klütz
Website :	www.damshagen.info
Mayoress :	Mandy Kruger
Location of the municipality Damshagen in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg

Damshagen is a municipality in the north of the district of Nordwestmecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany. It is administered by the Klützer Winkel office based in the town of Klütz .

geography

Damshagen is located in the middle of the Klützer Winkel between the towns of Grevesmühlen , Klütz and the Baltic Sea resort of Boltenhagen .

Damshagen is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Klütz in the north, Warnow in the east, Grevesmühlen in the southeast, Stepenitztal in the southwest and Roggenstorf in the west.

The municipality includes the districts of Damshagen, Dorf Gutow , Dorf Reppenhagen, Hof Gutow , Hof Reppenhagen, Kussow , Moor, Parin , Pohnstorf , Rolofshagen, Stellshagen and Welzin.

history

St. Thomas village church in Damshagen

Historic mansion of von Plessen in Damshagen (2011)

Damshagen was first mentioned as Thomashagen in 1230 in the Ratzeburg tithe register , which lists the localities that were then part of the Ratzeburg diocese sorted by parishes . The first mention of Stellershagen, today Stellshagen and Wulsin, today Welzin are dated to the year 1230. The name Damshagen first appears as Dammeshagen in 1370. The knight Marquard von Thomashagen was named as the first owner of Damshagen.

The von Plessen family is said to have owned property and rights in Damshagen as early as 1336 and remained owners of the property in Damshagen for over 600 years. After 1990 they were able to buy back part of the arable land.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality of Stellshagen was incorporated. Reppenhagen was added on July 1, 1961. On June 7th, 2009 the municipalities of Moor-Rolofshagen and Damshagen merged to form the new municipality of Damshagen.

Good Damshagen

Landlord Hans von Plessen

The von Plesse and von Plessen families owned the estate from 1336 to 1945 .
The mansion was built in the 20th century.

Stellshagen was first mentioned in a document in 1230. From the 16th century u. a. the von Plessen family goods here. From 1886 to 1918 the Counts of Bothmer owned the property. The Hamburg architect and building contractor Franz Bach acquired the estate in 1924 and then built the Stellshagen manor house. In 1945 the nationalized property was relocated. The manor house was initially a party school of the SED from 1946 and then housed a special school for disabled children and young people. After the fall of the Wall this was moved to Grevesmühlen. Bach's granddaughter bought the manor house in 1994 and had it converted into a hotel.

Welzin. The name of comes from the Slavic locator Volča ( wolf ), which means place of Volča .

politics

Coat of arms, flag, official seal

The municipality has no officially approved national emblem, neither a coat of arms nor a flag. The official seal is the small state seal with the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg. It shows a looking bull's head with torn off neck fur and crown and the inscription "• GEMEINDE DAMSHAGEN • LANDKREIS NORDWESTMECKLENBURG".

Coat of arms of the Damshagen district

Blazon : “Divided by a wave cut; above, in gold, a striding black bull with a raised tail; Crossed diagonally below in blue: a golden hoe and a golden lance, angled by four golden turnips. " The coat of arms and the flag were designed by the Weimar heraldist Michael Zapfe . It was approved together with the flag on May 2, 2005 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under the number 298 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Reasons for the coat of arms: In the coat of arms, the wave cut is supposed to symbolize the location of the former community on Damshäger Bach. The bull, the heraldic animal of the von Plessen family with a slightly different design , is a reminder of the former local rulers who determined the development of Damshagen over the centuries. Hoe and lance refer to the beginnings of the place. The hoe is supposed to create a visual reference to the clearing settlement formerly created by German settlers with its characteristic name component "hagen" . The lance as an attribute of Saint Thomas is supposed to symbolize the namesake and the church patron of the place. On the one hand, the beets stand as a symbol for the main occupation of the inhabitants, agriculture, and on the other hand, their number should indicate the four districts of the former municipality. Beet has long been the main crop in the region alongside grain. The former municipality located in Klützer Winkel dissolved as a legal entity at the end of June 6, 2009 and merged with the simultaneously dissolved municipality of Moor-Rolofshagen to form the new municipality of Damshagen. As a result of this merger, the coat of arms lost its status as a national emblem, but can still be used by the Damshagen people as an identification symbol.

Flag of the Damshagen district

The flag is evenly striped lengthways with blue and yellow. In the middle of the flag is the coat of arms of the former municipality, which takes up a third of the length. The length of the flag is related to the height as 5: 3.

Attractions

Stone Age Village Kussow (partial view)

See also : List of architectural monuments in Damshagen

• Gothic brick church of St. Thomas from the 14th century with the baroque altar by the Lübeck sculptor Hieronymus Hassenberg from 1724 and an organ by Friedrich Wilhelm Winzer from 1844.
• Chamberlain from around 1910 next to the rectory.
• Rectory from the 18th century; the community hall was added in the 19th century.
• Classicist manor house in Damshagen from 1914/1916
• Parin manor: two-storey, renovated plastered building with medium risalit ; today hotel.
• Stellshagen manor: two-storey, clinkered and renovated building from after 1924; today hotel.
• Stone Age village Kussow , open-air museum

Economy and Infrastructure

The Stellshagen manor house is of gastronomic importance.
There is a small restaurant in the former village fire brigade.

In addition to a day care center, there is a doctor's practice and a sports hall in Damshagen.

traffic

Damshagen can be reached via the connecting road from Grevesmühlen (on the associated motorway junction of the Baltic Sea A 20 ). The districts of Stellshagen and Hof Reppenhagen each had stops on the Grevesmühlen – Klütz (“Klützer Kaffeebrenner”) railway line, which was closed by Deutsche Bahn in 1995 and then operated as a museum railway until 2005 . In 2006 the tracks were dismantled. In 2012 a new start began and since June 2014 the train has been running again between Klütz and Reppenhagen.

Literature and Sources

literature

• Christian von Plessen: The Mecklenburg feudal estate Damshagen between 1900 and 1945. In: Wall anchor and bull. Schwerin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944033-03-7 , pp. 508-515.
• Hermann Gustav Adolf Peek: The Damshäger Bach and the villages closest to it. Reprint to commemorate the first documentary mention of Damshagen 775 years ago in the Ratzeburg tithe register from 1230. Gutsverwaltung Damshagen, Damshagen 2005 (collection of essays, first published in: Mecklenburg. Zeitschrift des Heimatbundes Mecklenburg. 1911–1920, ZDB -ID 556262-4 ).
• Heidelinde Knabe: Chronicle of the community Damshagen, Stellshagen, Reppenhagen, Welzin. 1230-2002. Damshagen community, Damshagen 2002.

Printed sources

• Mecklenburg record book (MUB)

Web links

Commons : Damshagen  - collection of images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistisches Amt MV - population status of the districts, offices and municipalities 2019 (XLS file) (official population figures in the update of the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ MUB I. (1863) No. 375.
3. ↑ MUB XVI. (1893) No. 10004, MUB XVIII. (1897) No. 10203.
4. ↑ MUB VII. (1873) VII No. 5696
5. ↑ State Statistical Office MV: Area changes 2009 (PDF file; 111 kB)
6. ↑ Max Naumann: The Plessen. Line from the XIII. to XX. Century. Published by Helmold von Plessen on behalf of the family association. 2nd revised and expanded edition. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1971, p. 112.
7. ^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, ISSN  0259-7772 , pp. 3-168, here p. 157
8. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 2
9. ↑ ^{a b} Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag - the coats of arms and flags of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and its municipalities . Ed .: production office TINUS; Schwerin. 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , pp. 432-433 .
10. ↑ Homepage of the parish Damshagen
11. ^ Foundation of German Small Railways