Neuruppin is a town in
Brandenburg,
Germany, the administrative seat of
Ostprignitz-Ruppin district. It is the birthplace of the novelist
Theodor Fontane (1819–1898) and therefore also referred to as
Fontanestadt. A
garrison town since 1688 and largely rebuilt in a
Neoclassical style after a devastating fire in 1787, Neuruppin has the reputation of being "the most
Prussian of all Prussian towns".