LOCATION
Putbus is a town on the island of Rügen with about 4.400 inhabitants. It was founded in 1801 by Prince Wilhelm Malte zu Putbus, has been the cultural centre of the island and owns the certificate “resort town” since 1997. To the municipality belongs Lauterbach, located 2 km from Putbus directly at the coastline. In this place sea bathing was introduced to Germany and Lauterbach became 1816 the first seaside resort of the island.
Coordinate: 54°20′N 13°29′E
1. Historic Theatre of Putbus photo source: Steingrube.
ATTRACTIONS
Nowadays the town attracts many tourists by the large Palace park which is presented as English landscape park. The old castle has been demolished in the 1950s, but the remaining Orangery, Palace church and Royal stables still document the historic relevance and power of this location.
The historic theater is one of the stages of the Theater Vorpommern and a venue for various cultural stagings during summer time.
The „circus” is a circular roundabout surrounded by white painted classicist buildings. It is the last uniformly designed circus in Germany. A tall obelisk is situated in the centre of the inner square.
In Lauterbach is the biggest marina of the region and aside you find exiting floating houses to rent as cosy holiday apartments.
INFORMATION SOURCES
Heritage Class: [ C ]Cultural Heritage
Subclass [AC] :Architectural complexes
WEB PAGES
http://ruegen-putbus.de/wb/pages/englisch/putbus.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putbus
http://www.putbus.de/tourismus/index.html(German language)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putbus(German language)
