549. Der Teufelssee bei Güstrow.

ATU-Erzähltypen

Keine belegbare Zuordnung in der geprüften Auswahl.

The whole-plot ATU search found no type matching this local church-origin legend. ATU 810A* requires a clergyman to bargain with the devil over construction of a church overnight, usually followed by an early rooster crow that makes the devils disappear; here the monks desecrate an existing chapel and the devil carries them away. ATU 804B requires a person already in hell to threaten to build a church. ATU 815 is the wake-and-corpse-skinning plot. Similar church/hell/Devil words do not satisfy those defining events. This final report is a recurring local belief that bells of the sunken church can be heard below the lake on calm, certain days, not a complete ATU plot. The whole-input search found no tale type for that sequence. ATU 826 requires a clergyman to see the devil writing down the congregation’s sins and to read the list aloud; none of that occurs. The other returned church/joke types also require unrelated actions.

Thompson-Motive

Assignments follow the cited observation-specific findings and full inspected definitions.

• Thompson G303.9.5 · The devil as an abductor.

  Wahrscheinliche Zuordnung · Textstelle

  Textbelege und Katalog

  The report explicitly says God sends the devil to fetch the “pflichtvergessenen Priester” and take them to hell. Thompson G303.9.5 is the general entry “The devil as an abductor,” and this directly describes that action. The narrower child G303.9.5.7 specifies that the abducted person is a Jew; these are monks, so that child is not met. I also examined F944.4 (“Earth splits and plain sinks to become bottom of lake when tabu is broken”): desecration and the opening earth are narrated, but the source says the church sinks and a lake forms in its place; it does not say the plain itself sinks to become the lake bottom, so I reject that narrower motif.

  • „Derselbe soll früher festes Land gewesen sein und darauf ein kleines Kirchlein gestanden haben.“
  • „Dies Gotteshaus aber wurde, wie die Alten erzählten, durch seine eigenen Diener entweiht, und deshalb verschwand es von der Oberfläche der Erde.“
  • „Als dies geschehen, da that sich die Erde auf, und tief, tief in dieselbe versank auf immer das Kirchlein; an seiner Stelle aber entstand der Teufelssee.“

  Thompson G303.9.5 im Katalog, öffnet in neuem Tab

• Thompson F941.2.1 · Church sinks: song heard from underground.

  Mögliche Zuordnung · Textstelle

  Textbelege und Katalog

  The source says the church has sunk and that its bells are heard ringing “tief unten im See” on quiet days. F941.2.1 is “Church sinks: song heard from underground”; the submerged-church sound is a close analogue, but bells are not called a song and the place is underwater rather than underground, so possible. V115.1 is “Church bell sunk in river (sea)”; the text locates the submerged church bells in a lake rather than a river or sea, so the water-body wording leaves uncertainty, also possible. F941.2.2 requires both church and congregation to sink to the bottom of the sea, which is not narrated; V115.1.1 requires a sunken bell to travel along the sea bottom, not stated. A1466 only labels the origin of church bells and does not describe this occurrence.

  • „Bei stillem Wetter, wenn Alles ruhig in Gottes Natur und kein Lüftchen sich regt, dann soll man noch jetzt oftmals, jedoch nur an gewissen Tagen, tief unten im See die Glocken der versunkenen kleinen Kirche läuten hören.“

  Thompson F941.2.1 im Katalog, öffnet in neuem Tab

• Thompson V115.1 · Church bell sunk in river (sea).

  Mögliche Zuordnung · Textstelle

  Textbelege und Katalog

  The source says the church has sunk and that its bells are heard ringing “tief unten im See” on quiet days. F941.2.1 is “Church sinks: song heard from underground”; the submerged-church sound is a close analogue, but bells are not called a song and the place is underwater rather than underground, so possible. V115.1 is “Church bell sunk in river (sea)”; the text locates the submerged church bells in a lake rather than a river or sea, so the water-body wording leaves uncertainty, also possible. F941.2.2 requires both church and congregation to sink to the bottom of the sea, which is not narrated; V115.1.1 requires a sunken bell to travel along the sea bottom, not stated. A1466 only labels the origin of church bells and does not describe this occurrence.

  • „Bei stillem Wetter, wenn Alles ruhig in Gottes Natur und kein Lüftchen sich regt, dann soll man noch jetzt oftmals, jedoch nur an gewissen Tagen, tief unten im See die Glocken der versunkenen kleinen Kirche läuten hören.“

  Thompson V115.1 im Katalog, öffnet in neuem Tab