What to See in Neubrandenburg - Top Sights and Attractions

Museum in Neubrandenburg, Germany. The Neubrandenburg Regional Museum is a cultural history museum in Neubrandenburg, Germany. It was formed in 1872 at the initiative of the Neubrandenburg Museum Society founded for that purpose. The catchment area and operation of the museum, whose name changed several times in the course of history, was regionally oriented from the start. In 1873, the society opened a permanent exhibition on the history of the region in the main tower of the Treptow Gate in Neubrandenburg. It was the first civic museum in the county of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Until the mid-1930s the museum remained in the hands of the society and did not transfer to the town until the society wound itself up under Nazi pressure.

Until 1989 the Neubrandenburg Museum, as the Historical District Museum (Historisches Bezirksmuseum), took on leading roles for other museums in the district of Neubrandenburg. Today the Neubrandenburg Regional Museum fulfills the role of the municipal museum for Neubrandenburg with several exhibition sites, a number of initiatives and extensive collections. It is one of the oldest museums of cultural history in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.^[3]

The Treptower Gate in Neubrandenburg was built in the middle of the 14th century in the style of North German brick Gothic in the city walls of Neubrandenburg. At 31.8 meters, the Treptower is the highest of Neubrandenburg's four city gates. The complex also includes a front gate added in the 15th century, a half-timbered house with apartments built in the 18th century, and the telegraph office established in 1856.

Since 1872, the main gate has housed the Neubrandenburg Regional Museum; today it displays a permanent exhibition on the prehistory and early history of the region.

The name Treptower Tor refers to the course of the old country road to Treptow (today Altentreptow) that began here.

On December 15, 1964 and April 14, 1967, two stamps each depicting the Treptower Gate appeared as part of the Deutsche Bundespost and Deutsche Bundespost Berlin stamp series German Buildings from Twelve Centuries I and II.

The Friedländer Tor in Neubrandenburg was built in the first half of the 14th century in the style of North German brick Gothic. It is the northeastern and most completely preserved of Neubrandenburg's four city gates.

The name "Friedländer Tor" refers to the direction of the arterial road, today's B 104, which first leads east and later continues to Friedland via the B 197.

The gate protected the town in the direction of Pomerania and was built as a gate castle with a total length of 88 meters. During the Thirty Years' War, the gate was stormed on the town side by General Tilly after the imperial troops gained access to the town through a breach in the wall next to the gate.

The main gate is a two-storey gate tower and has a polygonal stair tower on the town side. This stair tower was rebuilt in the third quarter of the 15th century together with the entire city side of the gate. The front gate with a small gable roof between the pinnacles is a two-story, less representative building. It is still connected to the main gate by two walls. The half-timbered buildings between the two gates, the former gate clerk's or customs and ring-keeper's houses, today house the gate café and a seat of the registry office of the city of Neubrandenburg. In the front gate there is an architect's office, in the main gate a gallery and a club room.

The Zingel has also been preserved. It was located in front of the double gate of the Friedländer Tor. Built shortly before the Thirty Years' War, this structure was intended to provide additional protection for the gate. On the city side, the building had deep arched niches and on the field side it was equipped with embrasures. The former connecting walls to the gate were demolished in the 19th century.

The Brigitte Reimann Literature House in Neubrandenburg, Gartenstraße 6, is a literary center in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern that was closed at the end of August 2009 by the sponsoring association, Literaturzentrum Neubrandenburg e.V., due to withheld funding of €10,000 from the Schwerin Ministry of Culture.

In November 2009, the literature center was reopened after the sponsoring association and the Ministry of Culture agreed on a temporary solution. According to the sponsoring association, the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has promised the funding necessary for operation.

On this site was the house where Brigitte Reimann last lived with her fourth husband Rudolf Burgartz until shortly before her death in 1973. The house, which was planned as a memorial, collapsed during renovation work. Today's literature center was rebuilt in its place. In addition to a picture gallery, it also contains Brigitte Reimann's library in her bookcase, which the city of Neubrandenburg acquired from her estate in 1995. Other items from her estate can be seen there.