Schliemann's birthplace, the vicarage in the artisan and farming town of Neubukow, was construction-wise in a pitiful state. Still during Schliemann's lifetime, the half-timbered house had to be demolished due to dilapidation and made way for a multi-story neo-Gothic successor building made of brick. Since 1929, a memorial plaque has commemorated the birth of the city's great son.
On one string of the church stalls in the church of St. Georgen zu Wismar there was the wood-carved coat of arms of the Schliemanns until its destruction in 1945. It shows a wild-looking, full-bearded man standing in the flowing water. In his raised right hand, he holds a cudgel. The left hand rests on the heart. A big fish (a tench) swims past the man.
The family coat of arms symbolizes the origin of the Schliemann family, which is said to have immigrated to Mecklenburg from the area of Schleswig (the Schlei bay, spoken in Low German "Schlie") during the Eastern colonization in the 13th and 14th century.
"I was born on January 6, 1822, in the small town of Neu-Buckow in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, where my father, Ernst Schliemann, was a Protestant preacher. ..." H.S., Autobiography in "Ilios" (1881)