The history of Gutshaus Stolpe The first documented reference to
Stolpe goes back to the late Middle Ages, when in 1136 Duke
Wartislaw I from the House of Griffin (the griffin on the
Pomeranian standard comes from his coat of arms), who had
converted to Christianity, was murdered by a Wendish knight, and
was consequently elevated to martyr status. Wartislaw's sons
built a church in Stolpe as a memorial to their father, and laid
his body to rest there. In order to further promote Christianity
for which Wartislaw had died, his brother, Ratibor I, founded a
monastery in 1153. This monastery belonged to the Benedictine
order and was the first in Pomerania. The buildings belonging to
the monastery extended at least approx. 100 m in an easterly
direction from the monastery ruins, which still stand today,
across the 'Amtskoppel', the large meadow upstream from the
River Peene. In the 1950s, the foundations here were excavated,
but were later filled in again. The monastery stood until 1637,
when, during the Thirty Ye