Putbus: Residential Town, Park and Culture
Accommodation in Putbus
Putbus combines a planned residential town with a neoclassical townscape, a palace park and cultural attractions. In 1810, Prince Wilhelm Malte zu Putbus planned the town around the palace. This origin gives your visit a common thread: architecture and culture are just as much part of the Putbus experience as a cycling tour or a ride on the narrow-gauge railway. Putbus lies in the southeast of Rügen, directly within the Southeast Rügen UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
A townscape shaped by princely history
Around the Circus, whitewashed residential and commercial buildings form a neoclassical ensemble. The Marstall in the palace park was built between 1821 and 1824. It served the princely family as a stable and carriage house and is now used as a venue for the Rügen Festival. The palace church, in turn, was created at the end of the 19th century by converting a former spa hall in the park; it was consecrated in 1892. Taken together, these buildings tell the story of different functions and periods of construction, rather than offering just one historical focal point.
Exhibitions, theatre and events
The orangery in Putbus hosts changing exhibitions by the Rügen Cultural Foundation. If you want to plan your stay around a particular exhibition, check the specific dates in advance. The Rügen Doll and Toy Museum displays dolls, toys, stuffed animals, tin soldiers, ships and model railways from three centuries. The collection offers a different way to explore cultural history than the neoclassical buildings in the townscape.
Putbus Theatre also offers a wide range of performances: it is a venue for Theatre Vorpommern and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival. Its repertoire includes drama, musical theatre, cabaret, children's performances, concerts and guest performances throughout the year; individual productions change. It is therefore worth checking the schedule for specific performances. This lets you consider exhibitions, the museum and the stage programme as distinct cultural highlights for your stay.
Palace Park and the Bodden Loop
Putbus Palace Park is an approximately 75-hectare English landscape park and one of the most significant surviving park landscapes in northern Germany. The easy Bodden Loop also returns through the palace park. It starts in Putbus, passes through Lauterbach and the Goor Forest, and offers views of the Rügischer Bodden. The route is about 12 kilometres long, flat and family-friendly. Check trail conditions before cycling. This gives you cultural history and a specific cycling tour with different points of interest to consider when planning your outings.
Putbus as a base for your stay
Another way to combine Putbus with destinations on Rügen is to take the Rasender Roland. This steam-powered narrow-gauge railway, with a track gauge of 750 millimetres, has been running on Rügen since 1895 and connects Putbus with Binz, Sellin, Baabe and Göhren. The route comprises a total of 24.2 kilometres of track; timetables vary by season. If you want to plan your trip around a train ride, check the timetable for your planned travel dates.
When choosing a holiday apartment in Putbus, you can consider which experiences you want to focus on: the neoclassical townscape and cultural offerings, the Bodden Loop, or the rail connection to the Baltic Sea resorts. The information provided offers several ways to plan your stay, without requiring every day to follow the same schedule. Discover more destinations: Lonvitz, Lauterbach, Neuendorf, Kasnevitz, Vilmnitz, Güstelitz, Groß-Stresow, Pastitz.
See the overview of the wider region: Vorpommern-Rügen.
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