Neuruppin

Neuruppin is a city in Brandenburg, Germany, the executive seat of Ostprignitz-Ruppin district. It is the birthplace of the novelist Theodor Fontane and therefore additionally known as Fontanestadt. A garrison city in view that 1688 and in large part rebuilt in a Neoclassical style after a devastating fire in 1787, Neuruppin has the recognition of being "the most Prussian of all Prussian cities". The beaches of Ruppiner See have been settled because the Stone Age; inside the 9th century AD, Poggenwerder Island was the website of a Slavic gord, likely built by means of Polabian Zamizi tribes. The citadel become likely slighted for the duration of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 and about 1200 a lowland castle became erected on an contrary peninsula, which from 1214 served as the residence of the Lords of Ruppin.

Their lordship remained an immediate Imperial property till its very last incorporation into the neighbouring Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1524. The name Neuruppin approach "New Ruppin", because the unique settlement of Ruppin became positioned across the fortress at the north-jap shore of the Ruppiner See. In the early 13th century, whilst the agreement have become too small for the developing populace, Neuruppin at the western shore of the lake became mounted through the Lords of Lindow-Ruppin.