St. Thomas Church (Damshagen)

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St. Thomas village church in Damshagen (south side), 2008
North side with the chapels, 2008
View through the nave to the altar, 2012

The St. Thomas Church in Damshagen is a brick-Gothic village church in Klützer Winkel in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg .

history

The village of Damshagen is four kilometers south of the small town of Klütz with Bothmer Castle . Damshagen was mentioned as Thomashagen in the Ratzeburg tithe register as early as 1230 and is one of the four old parishes of the Klützer Forest . In addition to Damshagen, this also included Klütz , Elmenhorst and Kalkhorst .

The first church will probably have been a wooden structure, but less than a hundred years later it was replaced by a stone church in three construction phases. As the first Pleban was Godefridus de Thoms Hagen in 1237 mentioned as a witness, as Bishop Ludolfus of Ratzeburg the December 26, 1237 Benedictine Monastery Rehna confirmed.

Even before 1336 the Plessen family were in Damshagen with property and rights, from whom Knappe Bernd made a sales contract in the village. Towards the end of the 14th century, the von Plessen owners of by far the largest Teles from Klützer Winkel, so in addition to Damshagen also the goods Klütz, Bahlen, Arpshagen, Grundeshagen, Grantenbeck, Brandenhof, Grossenhof, Hoikendorf, Tressow, Zierow, Barnekow, Parin and Hohen -Schönberg.

The importance of this noble family in the history of the Reformation of the Klützer Winkel was pointed out several times in the patronage churches. Around 1550 a village pastor left Damshagen because of withholding income and taking away arable land by the patron. In 1611 the pastor Thomas Löwe hanged himself, his widow blamed Johann von Plessen for this. For years the pastor lived in fear of the von Plessen family. In 1583 the Damshagen parish included Damshagen as well as Stellshagen, Reppenhagen, Welzin, Moor, Pohnstorf, Gutow, Rolofshagen, Parin, Kussow, Kühlenstein and Goldbeck. When Pastor Johann Gade came to Damshagen in 1612, he found a very dilapidated parish. The old house and the barn were in complete disrepair, the field was not grazed and the ground had only been plowed.

During the Thirty Years War in 1627, the church was badly devastated by imperial soldiers. In 1636 the parsonage and the cattle stalls burned down. Pastor Gade lived in the former bakery that had been converted into a new residential building. Because of the war riots he went to Lübeck and died there in exile in 1639. His successor, Pastor Johann Lademann, was expelled from office on July 23, 1647 by Duke Adolf Friedrich zu Mecklenburg . The princely decree reads: ... what an annoying life the pastor of Damshagen Johannes Lademan leads, in that he not only lives in enmity with his wife in his house, but is also full of drinking and mad every day, with all kinds of things Servants ... After the bakery burned down in 1689, a new building with a barn for the pastor was not built until 1697. In 1708 the von Plessen sold the goods with the church patronage of Damshagen to the head stable master Hartwig von Bülow. But as early as 1722, the Barons von Bothmer, who had come from Hanover, became the legal successors of the other goods belonging to those of von Plessen. It was not until 1732 that the new rectory and in 1755 a new sexton's house were built on the Damshagen parish grounds. In addition to improving the living conditions for the sexton, the schoolchildren also had their own classroom. At this time, the patronage of Damshagen passed to the owner of the Graflich Bothmer'schen Fidei-Kommiss.

Building history

The brick building is said to have been built in three sections in the second half of the 13th century. First the tower was built, in which the service was also held. Years later, the adjoining part, the nave, was built. On the outside of the south wall you can still clearly see how big the first part of the nave was. The large chancel shows that the second part must have been built before the Reformation. During the Thirty Years War, the church in Damshagen and the Plessen burial site were also heavily devastated, especially in 1627 by imperial troops. Extensive renovations in the church took place from 1720 to 1724 under the patronage of the chief stable master Hartwig von Bülow on Rolofshagen.

In 1844 some repairs and small changes were made to the interior of the church. Even an organ was purchased. Pastor Friedrich Emil Groth obtained the money through collections in the community. Count Kuno zu Rantzau-Breitenburg , who at that time lived at Bothmer Castle and administered the patronage, and the Secret Chamber Council from Plessen zu Schwerin, as the owner of Damshagen, also made donations of money. The church was in poor shape during these years. In 1856 Pastor Mehlhardt even described the condition of the church to Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II in Schwerin: The church in Damshagen is in a sad state. The inner church is in the highest degree dilapidated, desolated, untidy and unsightly. The floor is half sunken, cracked in some places and covered with rubble. Many pews are rotten, even splintered and broken. Altar, pulpit and ornaments have an unclean, weathered, ugly appearance. It must cut to the heart that this is a house of God and a holy place of worship. Then the church was completely expanded and a thorough renovation took place. The floor, the pews, the confessional, the pulpit and the altar were renewed. The service was held in the schoolhouse. The church patronage at this time was Felix Graf von Bothmer from Bothmer. The master builder Severin from Grevesmühlen was responsible for the construction issues .

At the beginning of the First World War , the renovation and extension of the rectory in Damshagen began. Due to delays the pastor family Hildebrandt had to live in the Gutshaus zu Stellshagen . In the post-war years, the rectory was not spared from looting and theft.

During the term of office of Pastor Helmuth Spieß, the interior of the church was restored in 1964.

Exterior

The entire outer walls of the nave, 32 meters long and 10.50 meters wide, were built in the Wendish bond. The single-aisled church building with the choir with 5/8 end braced on the outside was reshaped several times inside and outside. On the outside, the Gothic windows have been modernized. The original zigzag frieze on the nave has been preserved in parts. Chapels were built on the north side of the nave. One serves as a burial chapel, the other, originally the stairway to the patronage stalls, is now used as a mortuary. As a symbol of justice and power - it is said - the hands of a thief were cut off and walled into the church wall. However, this could never be clearly proven, but it is said to have been recorded in the church chronicle.

The church interior is a hall building in the style of the 18th century. Instead of the earlier vaults, there is a continuous ceiling , which was previously decorated with the coats of arms of the patronage family Hartwig von Bülow (the coat of arms of the first wife Hedwig von Bülow ad H. Gutow and one of his second wife Christine, née Reventlow). Otherwise, a subdivision between nave and choir can only be recognized at floor level; the choir is two steps higher than the nave.

The somewhat retracted square tower , which was probably built in front of the west at the end of the 14th century , has a four-sided helmet and a tent roof . The wooden spire was renewed in 1771 due to rot. There is a wheel window above the west portal. The tower clock, given to the church by Major Johann Berend von Plessen as early as 1653 , stood in his courtyard until the tower was built. In 1851 the top of the church tower was struck by lightning, the fire was extinguished by the courageous action of the blacksmith boy Pinnow. The church tower was not renewed until 1857. A document from 1777 was found in the ball. The tower and church roof was re-covered with plain tiles in 2015 .

In order to maintain satisfaction around the Damshagener Kirchhof, certain regulations were issued after 1750. Each village had to keep a certain section of the cemetery fence in order. In 1848 the churchyard wall was partially dilapidated and the fences broke.

Furnishing

Restored fifth, 2012

The oldest piece of equipment is a stone fifth made of Gotland limestone from the early 13th century, which has been in the church again since 2008 after its fragments were discovered in the Elmenhorst village church and were restored by a private initiative with the use of some additional pieces .

Interior

The interior was redesigned from 1721 to 1724 under the patronage of the head stable master Hartwig von Bülow into a uniform hall with a built-in flat barrel ceiling, with a surrounding ledge and cove. Another thorough renovation took place in 1856. The interior lost its Gothic character because a neo-Gothic version was implemented. From the renovation in 1964, today's well-thought-out color version comes with the colors blue, white and red. The restoration work included the restoration of the baroque pulpit altar and the restoration of the limestone funnel.

pulpit

The baroque pulpit altar was created in 1724 by the Lübeck sculptor Hieronymus Hassenberg . Four of the carved figures are still missing. They were removed due to severe woodworm infestation and require restoration, for which the parish currently lacks the money. The figure of the risen Christ has already been restored with the help of monument preservation and has been on top of the altar again since 2017. The patronage stalls from the same period are not accessible because the stairs behind them are missing.

Baptismal font

The Kalksteinfünte despite their simplicity of classical balance. The conical shaft, tapering towards the top and ending with a neck ring, grows up from the Attic base , on which the hemispherical dome with its rounded arcade rests. The time of origin is likely to be the middle of the 13th century.

organ

The winegrower's organ, 2015

Until 1844 there was no organ in the church. The organ (six registers , a manual and pedal ) was built in 1844 by the Wismar organ builder Friedrich Wilhelm Winzer for 414 Reichstaler and inaugurated on Pentecost Sunday. Before that there was no organ in the church. The elaborate Biedermeier form prospectus on the west gallery was designed by the master builder Johann Heinrich Tischbein from Warin . In 1938, the organ builder Marcus Runge from Schwerin added the electric wind motor and new prospect pipes. By the organ builder Wolfgang Nußbücker from Plau in 1974 a reconstruction and with the Umdisponierung heard the organ in six registers with 324 pipes . During the renovation in 1975, the small halo on the lyre was made smaller.

Bell jar

Of the original three bells in the church tower, only the largest has survived. As a prayer, storm and fire bell it bears the inscription Anno domini 1469 and shows on one side the image of a bishop with staff and pen. On the other side, Saint Catherine with a crown in her head, a wheel and a sword in her hand. According to a legend, she has a crown on her head because she was of royal family. She is depicted with the wheel because she was sentenced to death by the wheel, which was broken by a bolt of lightning, and with the sword, because it was used to behead her.

Until June 20, 1917, the church had three bronze bells. The second largest from 1378 was cast in 1815. The weight when casting the bell was given as 2210 pounds. With the smaller bell, both were removed in June 1917 to begin military service, as stated in the Schönberger Anzeiger of June 28, 1917. The second largest bell from 1815 had the following inscription: Damshagen in the year MDCCCXV. The church patron Christian Ludewig Graf von Bothmer on Bothmer born the XXIX August MDCCLXXLIII preacher Friedrich Emil Groth jurator NJ Boessow JHL Luckmann JW Gerbbin. From the other side: The bell from the year MCCCLXXVIII cast by JGW Landrein Lübeck I call the living to Busze and the dead to rest. The smallest bell bell was without an inscription.

Sandstone sarcophagi

The von Bothmer founders had the sacristy converted into a family crypt in 1729. In the baroque sandstone coffins in the burial chapel, a former patron saint of the church, the head stable master and landlord Hartwig von Bülow and his wife Christina, a née von Reventlow, rest. Both sarcophagi made of sandstone, but looking like marble, are supported by four stone lions. Rich decorations as well as scriptures carved in stone on the lids adorn the coffins. There are also the large tombstones of Berend von Plesse († February 4, 1555) and his son Kord († April 14, 1601) in this church. In front of this chapel there is a richly decorated baroque prospectus with the coats of arms of the von Bothmer and von Rantzau families. Next to the south entrance there is a window with the coats of arms of the noble families who lived there, including that for Kord von Plessen.

The sarcophagi

  • Sandstone sarcophagus for Hartwig von Bülow

  • Sandstone sarcophagus for Christina von Bülow

  • Wooden coffin for the 11 month old Hans von Bülow

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Patronage

The history of the patronage in Damshagen reflects in a special way the power relations in the Klützer Winkel, whose goods have always been in great demand due to the high creditworthiness of the agricultural land. In the course of the German settlement, there are knightly families like those of Parkentin , Storm and Kulebuss among the owners of Damshagen . The von Plessen are first documented in Damshagen in 1336. This family becomes the sole owner of the village of Damshagen at the end of the 14th century. By the beginning of the 16th century, the von Plessen had control over most of the manor villages located in Klützer Winkel.

After the introduction of the Reformation by the authorities in 1549 and the associated replacement of the church feudal rights of the bishops of the Ratzeburg diocese, the von Plessen tried to take over the church patronage in Damshagen in the still confusing mix of noble and ducal patronages.

Kord von Plessen in particular had a great desire to be the church patron. He called the village of Damshagen his own, a place that was owned by only one noble family for as long as hardly any other in Mecklenburg until 1945. When a clergyman was installed in Parin against the will of von Plessen, there were even fights with the words: In Damshagen heww ick dat Wurt. In 1569 the visitors were of a very different opinion. Since the right of patronage belonged to the bishop of Schönberg and the dukes of Mecklenburg were their legal successors, the Plessians could not be granted patronage. Although Kord von Plessen, self-confident and arguable, had long since switched to the church loan and did what he wanted, the dukes did not allow their power over the church in Damshagen to be taken out of their hands.

The Duchess Elisabeth von Mecklenburg, who administered the Grevesmühlen office, was determined to reject the Plessen's claims to power. In 1759 she warned Kord von Plessen that his pastor in Damshagen had to vacate the parish. You had the Ratzeburg legal succession, but Kord von Plessen the habit and the local advantage for themselves. As a dutiful patron, Kord stood out in the limelight, besides making many dodges, he was difficult to control. So he appointed pastors, had the service begin so early that the bailiff from Grevesmühlen had to be late. The bailiff learned nothing of the appointment of other pastors, because everything was secretly arranged with the superintendent at Wismar. On the gate to the church it read : Cort vonn Plessen Patrone de dit hefft buwen lathenn.

The protracted arguments lasted almost 25 years. On April 27, 1585, they reached a settlement in Rostock. Kord promised the Duchess Elisabeth and her officials that the nomination, election, appointment and removal of pastors would no longer be hindered by him. But Kord found it difficult to get over the loss of command in the church. Again and again he and his daring Plessen cousins ​​obstructed the church regiment of the dukes. The sextons were not present during controls or the church keys had disappeared.

So the people of Plessen took a lot out of their church in Damshagen and did not shy away from disrupting the service. In 1612, Kord von Plessen had been dead for over ten years, the Plessen chased the ducal bailiff, who had fled from the church during the service, to the rectory and took him prisoner there. The never-ending conflict had hit the pastors too.

On March 31, 1693, the patronage in Damshagen was transferred to him by Duke Friedrich Wilhelm I of Mecklenburg at the request of the landowner and Royal Danish Privy Councilor Christian Siegfried von Plessen on Rolofshagen . However, he himself sat on the churchless estate Parin, with which the Damshagen patronage was connected. This was meant well in terms of family policy, but the consequence was that in 1708, with the sale of his numerous goods, including Rolofshagen, the Damshagen patronage was lost forever to the Plessen. The head stable master Hartwig von Bülow became the new church patron in Damshagen in 1712. After his death in 1729, it passed from his daughter, who married Hans Caspar Gottfried Baron von Bothmer , to the von Bothmers family entourage, who rose to become the dominant noble family of the Klützer Winkel instead of the Plessen and Bülow.

  • Gravestone from 1601 for Cort von Plessen (Kord von Plessen) and his wife Cattrine Molke (Katharina von Moltke )

  • Gravestone from 1555, probably for Bernt von Pless (Berend von Plessen)

  • Patronage box with alliance coat of arms of Kuno zu Rantzau-Breitenburg and his wife, the maid of honor Amalasuntha Bothmer (1810-1856)

  • Choir stalls

Pastors

Names and years indicate the verifiable mention as pastor.

  • 1237 0000Pleban Gottfried, as Godefridus de Thomshagen witness on the deed of foundation of the Rehna monastery .
  • 1329–1334 Bleban Bertram Cremon , was canon of Eutin in 1334 , rector of the Boizenburg parish church in 1335 and, from 1350, bishop of Lübeck .
  • 1349 0000Bleban Reymer was vice rector.
  • 1371–1377 Matthias von Blücher , 1366 rector of the Parochialkirche zu Schönberg
  • 1428- 0000Berthold Reschinkel, sealed in 1428 as a witness at Cords von Plesse zu Damshagen.
  • 1445- 0000Jakob Kersebom.
  • 1520–1528 Nikolas Lutkens was the last Catholic priest in Damshagen.
  • 1528- Thomas Aderpul from Gressow was appointed by Berend von Plessen in violation of the patronage right of the Bishop of Ratzeburg.0000
  • 0000-1534 Joachim Konecke was the first evangelical preacher.
  • 1534–1542 Caspar (von der) Bruges, is a learned and pious church gentleman.
  • 1542–1545 Assuverus Becker from Denmark.
  • 1551–1553 Lorenz Wüshoff, then Kirchdorf on Poel.
  • 0000 0000 Martin Schmidt from Grevesmühlen.
  • 0000 0000 Matthias Döve from Pritzwalk.
  • 1565–1568 Nikolaus Lüders, died in the great plague.
  • 1568–1572 Georg Auriga, then Kapellean in Schönberg.
  • 1572–1574 Berward Flore, previously field preacher in the Swedish and Danish wars.
  • 1574–1577 Samuel Bardt from Lübeck.
  • 1577–1580 Jakob Riese was relieved of his office by princely orders.
  • 1582–1588 Hector Siegfried from Kassel, then in Hornstorf., Was a restless head in constant state of war with the lordship ...
  • 1585–1588 Mauritius Wake (Wacenius) from Wismar.
  • 1590–1611 Thomas Löwe, was confused in the head and finally laid hand on himself in unhappy displeasure ...
  • 1612–1639 Johann Gade from Grabow, fled to Rostock because of war unrest and died there in exile.
  • 1639–1647 Johannes Lademann, had married the widow of his predecessor, got used to a messy life and had to vacate the parish ...
  • 1648–1673 Erasmus Hagelschacht from Ribnitz. kept the church book very carefully, his widow lived in the bakery until it burned down ...
  • 1674–1702 Joachim Heinrich Taumann from Bruel, was a school teacher in Schwerin.
  • 1703–1715 Heinrich Schaube from Lübeck, was previously in Italy, France, England and Holland.
  • 1717–1724 Bernhard Raupach from Hamburg, he was active as a writer and founded the school in Weltzin.
  • 1726–1728 Christian Albrecht Ideler, came at the instigation of the patron in times of disputes with Duke Carl Leopold… , went to Lauenburg.
  • 1731–1753 Andreas Gottfried Schmidt,
  • 1754–1808 Johann Daniel Lorenz Jörges, son of the governor of Bützow.
  • 1808–1847 Friedrich Emil Groth, son of a valet and picture gallery supervisor from Schwerin.
  • 1848–1864 Heinrich Friedrich Mehlhardt, appointed church councilor in Schwerin in 1889.
  • 1864–1871 Friedrich Heinrich Hermann Ost, was rector in Dargun.
  • 1871–1913 Hermann Gustav Adolf Peek, collected and published material about Damshagen and the surrounding area ...
  • 1913–1914 interim Behm from Klüz.
  • 1914–1934 Thomas Heinrich August Hildebrandt was pastor in Bohemia and from 1914 field hospital inspector.
  • 1934 0000Wilhelm Jetter from Hamburg, made a name for himself as a homeopath.
  • 1958–1995 Helmuth Spieß, came from Suwalki in Poland in 1944, during his tenure in 1964 the church was restored and in 1974 the organ was thoroughly overhauled.
  • 1996 0000Christa Drephal, retired pastor.
  • 2018- 0000Claudia Steinbrück from Kalkhorst.

Parish

The St. Thomas Church is the church of the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Damshagen with the places Damshagen, Dorf Gutow, Dorf Reppenhagen, Hof Gutow, Hof Reppenhagen, Kühlenstein, Kussow, Parin, Rolofshagen, Stellshagen and Welzin. The parish Damshagen forms a parish with the parish Kalkhorst with parish seat and belongs to the Mecklenburg parish of the north church .

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898, (reprint 1992), ISBN 3-910179-06-1 , pp. 357-361
  • Hermann Peek: The Damshäger Bach and the villages closest to it. In: Mecklenburg Journal of the Heimatbund Mecklenburg 7, 1912, S, 78–115.
  • Horst Ende : Village churches in Mecklenburg. Berlin 1975, pp. 122, 136.
  • Günter Gloede: Churches in the coastal wind. Volume II. Churches in and around Wismar, Berlin 1986, p. 136.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Munich, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 104
  • ZEBI eV, START eV: Village and town churches in the Wismar-Schwerin parish. Bremen, Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-86108-753-7 , pp. 210-211.
  • Horst Ende, Christian Molzen, Horst Stutz: Churches in Northwest Mecklenburg. Insights 11, Grevesmühlen 2005.
  • Max Reinhard Jaehn: Organs in Mecklenburg. Rostock 2008, ISBN 978-3-356-01267-5 , pp. 46, 47.
  • Rene Wiese: In Damshagen heww ick dat Wurt. Kord von Plessen and the church patronage in Damshagen. In: Wall anchor and bull. Schwerin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944033-03-7
  • Heidelinde Knabe: Chronicle of the Damshagen community: Damshagen; Stellshagen; Reppenhagen; Welzin. 1230–2002 Ed .: Damshagen municipality. Damshagen 2002

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
    • LHAS 2.12-3 / 4 churches and schools. No. 1834, 1837.
    • LHAS 5.12-7 / 1 Mecklenburg-Schwerin Ministry for Education, Art, Spiritual and Medical Matters. No. 8470 Damshagen, buildings and repairs to the church, parish and sexton buildings. 1851-1921.
  • State Church Archives Schwerin (LKAS)
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Specialia, Dept. 1. No. 132 Damshagen.
    • LKAS, State Superintendent of Schwerin,
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Generalia, No. 024a Church Damshagen, inauguration by the superintendent in 1856.
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Specialia, No. 125–130 Church registers, taxes, invoices 1934–1960.
    • LKAS, Landessuperintendentur Wismar, No. 15 Damshagen 1914–1991.
    • LKAS, Parish Archives Damshagen, 12. – 20. Century, no. 035 files on the von Plessen family (landowners and temporarily patron of the Damshagen Church), family trees, possessions, site plans, disputes between pastor and major von Plessen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MUB I. (1863) No. 471.
  2. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village Damshagen. 1898, p. 358.
  3. ↑ MUB VIII. (1873) No. 5696.
  4. ^ Friedrich Lisch: Thomas Aderpul or the Reformation to Gressow, Machin and Bützow. MJB 16 (1851) pp. 63-64.
  5. ^ The parish of Damshagen. From the chronicle of Moor, Gutow, Kussow and Pohnstorf.
  6. ↑ Heidelinde Knabe: The Church Conditions in the 17th Century. 2002, p. 62.
  7. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village Damshagen. 1898, p. 358.
  8. ↑ Georg Dehio: Damshagen district. Northwest Mecklenburg. 2000, p. 104.
  9. ↑ Martin Eberling: The story of Damshagen. Records around 1930.
  10. ↑ Damshagen Community Letter, accessed April 5, 2009
  11. ↑ Horst Ende: Damshagen, Krs. Grevesmühlen. In: Village churches in Mecklenburg. 1978, p. 136.
  12. ↑ Heidelinde Knabe: The parish Damshagen. , 2002, p. 84
  13. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village Damshagen. 1898, pp. 359-360.
  14. ↑ M. Naumann: The Plessen - ancestry from the XIII. to XX. Century . Edited by Dr. Helmold von Plessen on behalf of the family association. 2nd revised and expanded edition. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1971, p. 88 u. 89
  15. ↑ Rene Wiese: In Damshagen heww ick dat Wurt. Kord von Plessen and the struggle for church patronage there. Schoenberg May 30, 2015.
  16. ↑ LHAS 2.12-3 / 4 Churches and Schools. No. 1834 Kord von Plessen to Herzog 1579.
  17. ↑ Rene Wiese: In Damshagen heww ick dat Wurt. Kord von Plessen and the struggle for church patronage there. Schoenberg May 30, 2015.
  18. ↑ LHAS 2.12-3 / 4 Churches and Schools. No. 1834 bailiff to duke December 31, 1580.
  19. ↑ LHAS 2.12-3 / 4 Churches and Schools. No. 1837 Christian Turmann to Duchess Elisabeth February 22, 1585.
  20. ↑ LHAS 2.12-3 / 4 Churches and Schools. No. 1834 in Rostock on April 27, 1585 settlement concluded.
  21. ↑ Rene Wiese: In Damshagen heww ick dat Wurt. Kord von Plessen and the struggle for church patronage there. Schoenberg May 30, 2015.
  22. ^ Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parish since the Thirty Years' War. Wismar 1925.
  23. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village Damshagen. 1898, p. 358.
  24. ↑ MUB I. (1963) No. 471.
  25. ↑ MUB XXV. (1936) No. 14124.
  26. ↑ Heidelinde Knabe: The Damshagen Church during the Reformation. 2002, p. 57.
  27. ^ Friedrich Lisch : Directory of the first Protestant preachers in the Grevesmühlen district. MJB 12 (1847) p. 170.
  28. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  29. ↑ Heidelinde Knabe: The right of patronage. 2002, p. 60.
  30. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  31. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  32. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  33. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  34. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  35. ^ Friedrich Lisch: Duke Carl Leopold and the clergy. MJB 39 (1874), p. 61.
  36. ↑ Hermann Peek: The Damshäger Bach and the villages lying next to him. 1912, pp. 78-115.

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Coordinates: 53 ° 55 ′ 38.6 "  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 9.3"  E