Stolpe Abbey

Ratibor I, Duke of Pomerania, founded the abbey on 3 May 1153 in memory of his brother Wartislaw I. Wartislaw, who had subdued the area and converted its people to Christianity in the late 1120s, was killed near the site of the future monastery; according to legend he was murdered by a Liutician pagan.

The Pomeranian dukes and the Counts of Gützkow granted the new foundation extensive lands in the vicinity.

In 1164, a meeting between the Duke of Saxony, Henry the Lion, and King Valdemar I of Denmark was held here.

In 1534, Stolpe Abbey was dissolved in the course of the Protestant Reformation.

The Thirty Years' War made a battleground of Stolpe and left the abbey buildings in ruins.