Pastitz: Discover cycling routes and the manor house

If you would like to plan your stay around a cycling tour, Pastitz offers a clearly designated stop: the village is marked on the official “In the Footsteps of Prince Malte” circular route. Pastitz Manor is also a specific point of interest, but it can only be viewed from the outside.

Cycling around Pastitz

After passing through Posewald, the official circular route follows a cycle path alongside the road for about 1.5 kilometres to the designated stop in Pastitz. The return journey to Putbus goes via Darsband. The Pastitz circular route is about 32 kilometres long and is considered easy. Its route includes cycle paths, unpaved forest tracks, paved village streets, cobblestones and concrete slab paths.

So the surfaces change along the way. If you want to plan around a particular surface, take this mix into account and check the condition of the paths before setting off. The nearby area is mostly flat to gently hilly and suitable for inexperienced cyclists. The routes can also be used on foot—a helpful option if you would like to combine cycling and walking days.

Pastitz Manor from the outside

The route approaches Pastitz Manor through former estate buildings. The manor house is a historic point of interest that you can view from the outside; plan to stop there to see the exterior. This lets you combine a visit to the designated cycling stop with a glimpse of the former estate, without mistaking the stop for an opportunity to tour the interior.

A shorter loop in the wider Putbus destination

In the wider Putbus destination, the easy Bodden Loop offers a different distance: it is about 12 kilometres long, flat and family-friendly. The route starts in Putbus, passes through Lauterbach and the Goor forest, returns through the castle park and offers views of the Rügischer Bodden. By comparison, the Pastitz circular route is longer at about 32 kilometres and includes a variety of path surfaces. This information helps you compare the two routes by distance and terrain without planning them as a single route.

Townscape and culture in Putbus

The wider Putbus destination is also a point of interest for the town’s history and culture. Putbus was planned in 1810 as a purpose-built royal residence town around the castle of Prince Wilhelm Malte zu Putbus. At the Circus stands a Neoclassical ensemble of whitewashed residential and commercial buildings. Putbus Castle Park is an English landscape garden covering about 75 hectares and is one of the major surviving landscaped parks in northern Germany.

The Marstall stands in the castle park. It was built between 1821 and 1824 as a stable and coach house for the princely family. Today, it is used as a venue for the Rügen Festival; the programme may vary. The castle church was created at the end of the 19th century by converting a former spa hall in the park and was consecrated in 1892. The Putbus Orangery hosts changing exhibitions by the Rügen Cultural Foundation.

The Putbus Theatre is a venue for Theatre Vorpommern and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival. Its repertoire includes drama, music theatre, cabaret, children’s performances, concerts and guest performances throughout the year; individual productions change. The cultural offering in the wider Putbus destination therefore ranges from architecture and landscaped gardens to changing exhibitions and stage performances.

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View the wider travel guide: Putbus.