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Gothic church with a vaulted roof, and frequently restored. On the
walls of the interior are numerous tombstones. The choir contains
an altar of 1518 and portions of another of 1375. The elaborately ad¬
orned columns and the excellent sculptures in the Romanesque crypt
should be noticed. The S. transept contains a small museum.
We now cross the Grillendamm to the old town, in which the
most interesting buildings are the Gotthards-Kirche (13-15th cent.)
and the former Altstudt Rathaus (15th cent.).
The Marienberg, to the N.W. of the town, commands a good
view (tower 98 ft. in height, erected in 1880 as a monument of victory
from Stier's designs); tramway from the Rathaus to the PlauerTor.
Amongst other towns of interest to the student of mediaeval art in
the Mark are Stendal and Tangermiinde, Chorin (p. 204), Kbnigsberg
in der Neumark, and also Havelberg and Lehnin (p. 205). For details
concerning these, and for farther details about Brandenburg, see Baedeker's
Northern Germany.
c. Neu-Ruppin. — Railway in 3 hrs., either by the Hamburg line
(4772 31.) or the Kremmen line (4072 31.). — By the Hamburg line
to Spandau and (14 31.) Finkenkrug, see p. 206 (suburban service
to Nauen, see p. 13). — 3072 31. Paulineuaue. A branch-line runs
hence to Neu-Ruppin, via (40y4 31.) Fehrbellin (Deutsches Hans),
472 M. to the N.W. of the village of Hakeuberg, where the Great
Elector defeated the Swedish in 1675. A column, 105 ft. in height,
with a figure of Victory and a relief portrait of the Great Elector by
A. Wolff, was erected here in 1879. View of the battlefield from
the top. — 48 M. Neu-Ruppin, see below.
The Kremmen line starts from the Stettin Station (see p. 13).
— As far as (8 M.) Tegel, see p. 201. —157'2 31. Velten, with numer¬
ous stove-factories. At (23 M.) Kremmen (2800 inhab.) we change
carriages. — 33 31. Radensleben is the station for the village of
Wustran, situated l3/4 31. to the W., at the S.E. angle of the Rup-
piner See (S M. in length). Hans Joachim von Zieten (d. 1786), the
well-known general of Frederick the Great, is buried in the church
here. — The railway crosses the lake to —
4072 M. Neu-Ruppin (Mitrkischcr Hof, R. 2-3, B. 3/4, D.
17a "M\ Krone, both in the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse), a town
with 18,600 inhabitants. About 4 min. from the station a statue of
Theodor Fontane, the poet (1819-98), by Wiese, was unveiled in
1907. A Monument, to Fred. William II., by Tieck, commemorates
that monarch's contribution towards rebuilding the town after a
conflagration in 1787. Another monument, by Wiese, commemorates
Karl Fried. Schinkel (1781-1841; p. 49), who was born here. On
the lake stands the Abbeg Church, a 13th cent. Gothic edifice of
brick, restored by Schinkel. — The so-called *Ruppin Switzer¬
land, a hilly district with beech-woods and several lakes, is one of
the prettiest parts of the Mark. On Sun. afternoons in summer