Damshagen Manor

The Damshagen Manor House in the municipality of Damshagen in the Nordwestmecklenburg district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is a two-story manor house built in the Neoclassical style from the early 20th century.

The former Damshagen knight's estate, along with Arpshagen in the Klützer Winkel, with the Plessenburg located there, belonged to the ancestral estates of the Mecklenburg line of the Knights of Plessen. Damshagen was owned by this ancient noble family from 1336 to 1945. In 1945, the owners were forcibly dispossessed and expelled by the communists.

The castle and defensive fortifications located in Damshagen were razed in the Middle Ages, and a manor house in half-timbered construction was erected on the site of the former castle complex. Among the owners of the then Damshagen estate and manor house were the Mecklenburg Lord Chamberlain Hans Adolf von Plessen and subsequently his son August, who also became a chamberlain. The historic half-timbered manor house, presumably built in the 17th century, with a half-hipped roof and dormer windows, was completely demolished in 1914, after the Plessens had the current manor house built south of the farmyard between 1913 and 1914. After the expulsion of the von Plessen family during the land reform in Germany, the manor house initially served as refugee accommodation; later it was used as an inn, cultural center, and residential building.