STEINMEYER, Johann Gottfried
(b. ca. 1780, Mühlhausen, d. ca. 1851, Berlin)

General view

1826
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Circus, Putbus

When Prince Malte of Putbus enlarged his town on the island of Rügen into a princely seat from 1815, ha had the civic areas laid out by Johann Gottfried Steinmeyer as a "white town" with whitewashed houses. The central "square" is the Circus, which is ringed by condominiums. The plain two- and three-story houses are decorated with cautious stylistic borrowings from Neoclassicism and the Gothic Revival, and generous amounts of green have been left between them.