Plessow

Plessow is a small district of the town of Werder, located to the west of the urban area, separated by the Great Plessower Lake. Plessow, in turn, belongs to the district of Plötzin in Werder. The village was first mentioned in a document around 1179.
Many generations before the first documented mention, Slavic settlers settled on the peninsula into the lake and established a village site which they called pleso. This term stands for the expanse of water/open place of water in an Old Slavic language. Their descendants, together with German colonists, established a village inland and a wooden church. Plessow was likely owned by the family von Rochow of Golzow since 1290. The church community was merged in 1287 by Bishop Heidenreich of Brandenburg with that of Plötzin, making the Plessower church a subsidiary church. The wooden church buildings were lost to fire. In the land book of Emperor Charles IV from 1375, the Plessow estate is listed with 12 huben. Until 1520, when Hans VII von Rochow divided his estate among four sons, Plessow remained under the administration of the ancestral seat in Golzow. Only from 1529 was Plessow described as a manor and independent lordship under Hans X von Rochow. The other three sons formed the lines Golzow, Reckahn, and Gollwitz. From then on, Hans XIII, who had the first massive patronage church built, led the estate in Plessow. He fought as a Protestant in the Huguenot Wars and took possession of the paternal estate at the end of the 16th century. His son Hans XIV, in turn, continued the estate's management after his death. Reports of construction activities by the von Rochow family in Plessow only begin in 1624.

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