St.-Thomas-Kirche, Gothic church in Damshagen, Germany.

St.-Thomas-Kirche is a brick building designed in northern European Gothic style, distinguished by tall walls and carefully laid brick patterns. The structure displays the typical features of this period including steep roofs and upward-reaching lines.

Damshagen was recorded as Thomashagen in the Ratzeburger Zehntregister in 1230, and Godefridus de Thomshagen appears as its first pleban in 1237. The brick church was built in three phases in the second half of the 13th century, starting with the tower, where services were first held. Imperial troops ravaged the church and the Plessen burial site in 1627, and major renewals followed from 1720 to 1724 under patron Hartwig von Bülow.

The village was recorded as Thomashagen in the Ratzeburger Zehntregister in 1230, and the parish is one of the four old parishes of the Klützer Winkel, alongside Klütz, Elmenhorst and Kalkhorst. The church's patron was long held by the von Plessen family, then passed to the Bülows in 1708 and to the Counts of Bothmer in 1722. A pastor's widow blamed Johann von Plessen for her husband Thomas Löwe's suicide in 1611.

The church stands in Damshagen, four kilometres south of Klütz with Schloss Bothmer. The south wall outside still shows where the first section of the nave ended, so walk the exterior to read the three building phases. Services were once held in the tower while the nave was unfinished.

The south wall still shows where the first section of the nave ended, because the church was built in three stages from the second half of the 13th century: the tower came first and served as the original place of worship.