Talk:Lubomino

Scottish chapel
As well as a gothic church the village has a small chapel dedicated to St Roche. The chapel of St Roche was built by a Scottish merchant who once lived in Lubomino. The story is related in Fischer's "Scots in Germany" http://www.electricscotland.com/history/germany/commerce2.htm

Most of these immigrants were, as we have seen, of the reformed faith; yet the Roman Catholics were not wanting. They showed a predilection for the Catholic province of Ermeland or visited, as far as they did not belong to the trading fraternity, the school of the Jesuits at Braunsberg. Speaking of the foundation of St Rochus’ Chapel at Arnsdorf the author relates: "Once upon a time when a merchant from abroad, a Scot, drove from Guttstedt to Wormditt, where in those days much trade was done, he heard near Arnsdorf a ploughman ploughing near the road sing a Scotch tune. He wondered and stopped, called the ploughman and being questioned as to what brought him to this country the latter told his countryman, that his name was Maier (probably Mayor), that he had been forced to leave his native place during the religious persecutions of Queen Elizabeth, and that he and many others had at last arrived in Ermeland, where he, owing to his poverty, had to hire himself out as a farm-labourer. The merchant, who from the manner in which the tale was told, recognised Maiers’ great capacities, took him with him and left him with the Jesuits at Braunsberg for further education. Later on the former ploughman became a rich merchant. Out of gratitude towards God for the fortunate turn of his life he in the year 1617 built a chapel dedicated to St Rochus at Arnsdorf with eight window; a small steeple and a bell. On a slab of black marble on the eastern wall we read the following inscription:

I. M. I. FAMATUS JOANN MAlER, NATIONE SCOTUS, CIVIS BRUNOB; IN PUERIS AHRENSDORFII ET LAUTERWALDII SERVIENS EX VOTI CAUSA HOC SACELLUM AD DEI OMNIPOTENTIS CLORIAM FUNDAVIT ET EXSTRUXIT. ANNO SALUTIS HUMANAE 1617.

i.e. the famous John Mayor, a Scot, citizen of Braunsberg in his youth serving at Ahrensdorf and Lauterwald, founded and built this chapel according to a vow, in honour of the Almighty God. In the year of grace 1617."