Alt Damerow village church
● Alt Damerow
The small rectangular half-timbered church in the center of the village is located in the immediate vicinity of the Pingelhof open-air agricultural museum. It was probably built after the Thirty Years' War and before 1700. The members of the Pingel family, who once ran the Pingelhof, now a museum, as a real farm, are buried in the cemetery of the Alt Damerow village church.
Village center and witness to the past - After plans were made in the mid-1990s to demolish the dilapidated building and rebuild it in the Mueß/Schwerin open-air museum, great resistance grew, so that the church was completely renovated thanks to numerous local initiatives and reopened in 1998. Even the small bell in the ridge turret, which for a long time could not live up to its inscription "Up and down and up again is my whole course of life" and was only operated by a clapper, has been moving by itself again since the renovation. The members of the Pingel family, who once ran what is now the Pingelhof Museum as a real farm, are buried in the cemetery surrounding the church.