Germany - Brandenburg - Neuruppin

Fontane City Neuruppin (Mark Brandenburg), the birthplace of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Theodor Fontane, and the city of the Nuruppin. View accross the Lanke with the monastery church in the middle.

Sent by Werner from Cologne, Germany.

Neuruppin (German: [nɔʏʁʊˈpiːn], lit. 'New Ruppin', in contrast to "Old Ruppin [de]"; North Brandenburgisch: Reppin) is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, the administrative seat of Ostprignitz-Ruppin district. It is the birthplace of the novelist Theodor Fontane (1819–1898) and therefore also referred to as Fontanestadt. A garrison town since 1688 and largely rebuilt in a Neoclassical style after a devastating fire in 1787, Neuruppin has the reputation of being "the most Prussian of all Prussian towns".

Neuruppin is one of the largest cities in Germany in terms of area. The city of Neuruppin, 60 km (37 mi) northwest of Berlin in the district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin (Ruppin Switzerland), consists in the south of the districts located on the shores of Ruppiner See, which is crossed by the Rhin River, including the actual core city of Neuruppin and Alt Ruppin. In the north, it stretches up to the Rheinsberg Lake Region and the border with Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It is part of the Stechlin-Ruppiner Land Nature Park and is connected to the Wittstock-Ruppiner Heide, which was partly used for military purposes as the Wittstock military training area (read more).