Dierhagen has been diplomatically noted in 1311.
In the beginning of the 14th century German settlers pushed aside the Slaves, living here for 600 years, out of the area around Ribnitz. They gave their colony German names. The "Hagen" in Dierhagen indicates the thick forest. "Deerhagen" or "Thierhagen" means "Tierhagen" and calls attention to the central animal husbrandy of the local agriculture.
In 1324 Dierhagen, with its former farmyard and stud of Heinrich dem Löwen, has been mortgaged to Johann von Moltke and in 1328 endowed to the Klaren-cloister of Ribnitz. An inventory of the cloister to Ribnitz of 1585 arise that 58 mares and 2 stallions have been kept. After the bounds affiliated to the cloister of Ribnitz occasionally, then from 1599 to 1669 in chivalric property in consequence of the reformation, it finally became ducal department subordinated to the head of Ribnitz.
The agricultural harvest has been paltry and the farmers were forced to improve their subsistence with fishing.
It is also interesting that this remote coast has yet been location for militant actings. Evidence to this deliver the still remaining entrenchments from the Thirty Years' War, located in the north of the community and aside the way running the Fischland on a meadow. Refering to the report Acta curiae in the archive in Ribnitz, they have been built by the imperials and captured by the Swedes on 23 September 1630. This is the reason why it is called "Schwedenschanze" (Swedisch entrenchment) today. Also Wallenstein left his mark in Dierhagen during the big war. At the crossroads Fischländer Weg - Turmschneise you can still find rests of "Wallensteins Heerstraße".
After the promulgation of the continental system in 1807 Dierhagen experienced a French occupancy by Napoleon, which should have prevented the community from smuggling. But not just wars and sieges were destructive. Also numerous surges and fires often demolished things, which were built in long lasting hard work. Just 2 houses could have been prevented from the surge in 1747. After another surge in 1872 the Mecklenburg federal state government was forced to provide capital for the construction of a sea dike. The dike has been accomplished in 1876 and resisted the surges of 1904 and 1913. Not till the grave surge of 1952 the sea dike has been enforced. The 28 August 1853 also made history as a scary day for Dierhagen. At noon a fire dropped out on a farmstead and crushed out 10 farmsteads with barns and hutches as well as 42 shipmen's houses in the space of 2 hours.
After this biggest fire in the history of Dierhagen (1859 and 1894 two more followed, but not that disastrous), the community has been reconstructed shortly by leadership of Koppe, head of Ribnitz. Annalist Dollberg reports:
"Eventually the disaster turned into luck since the improvement of roads and avenues accompanied the rebuild of houses."
During the height of sail shipping in the 1850 ies the inhabitants of Dierhagen and Dändorf possessed 71 ships. Those have been removed to the meadow at the inner bay in the copse "Buckwisch" for repair and maintenance issues. In the community's centre there has been a boat shipyard in the near of the today's "Neue Reihe". Unfortunately information about the size of the constructed ships are missing.
At the end of the 19th century the upcoming steam navigation pushed aside the traditional shipping companies. Due to this fact numerous families had to suffer a hard economic setback.
But yet in 1880 few inlanders went in for the exhausting journey in summer and discovered the harsh beauty of the landscape round the Baltic Sea and the inner bay and its enormous recreational potential. Resulting, in 1895 the intention to build up a substantial tourism came up. During the season in 1910 already 800 bath tourists came to Dierhagen. From 1930 on first charcateristics of a Baltic resort colony developed.
After the divestiture of the fascism in the 1950 ies, the seamen of Dierhagen continued the old tradition of navigation.
Today Dierhagen is a Baltic Sea resort for nature lovers, sunbathers and sportsmen.