Editing Neuruppin (section)

==== Neuruppin after the incorporation in 1993 ====
[[File:OPR Neuruppin Klinik 03.jpg|thumb|right|House I of the Ruppiner Kliniken]]When the new districts were formed, which came into effect on December 6, 1993, the district of Neuruppin was absorbed into the district of [[Ostprignitz-Ruppin]]. On the same day, Neuruppin was significantly enlarged by incorporating the town of Alt Ruppin as well as the communities of Buskow, Gnewikow, Gühlen-Glienicke, Karwe, Krangen, Lichtenberg, Molchow, Nietwerder, Radensleben, Stöffin, Wulkow and Wuthenow. Until 1991, Neuruppin was still the location of the 12th Soviet Armored Division. The barracks were later converted into residential buildings as part of the [[Expo 2000]] outdoor project. Parts of the airfield are now still used for [[gliding]].

In 1996, the then Neuruppin Regional Clinic and the District Hospital passed into the ownership of the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district as parts of the Ruppiner Kliniken GmbH. The Ruppiner Kliniken are thus one of the largest regional employers.<ref>[http://www.ruppiner-kliniken.de/ueber-uns/profil-geschichte/geschichte.html ''Geschichte''.] Ruppiner Kliniken GmbH; retrieved 30 December 2009.</ref> The [[Protestant church]] districts of Ruppin and [[Wittstock|Wittstock/Dosse]] merged in 1998, and Neuruppin lost the seat of the [[Superintendent (Christianity)|superintendent]] to Wittstock as a result.

On March 11, 1998, the city was awarded the additional designation of Fontanestadt.<ref>Verleihung der Zusatzbezeichnung Fontanestadt. Bekanntmachung des Ministeriums des Innern vom 11. März 1998. Amtsblatt für Brandenburg Gemeinsames Ministerialblatt für das Land Brandenburg, 9. Jahrgang, Nummer 13, 9. April 1998, S. 407</ref> On January 1, 2001, the focal public prosecutor's office for [[corruption]] was established in Neuruppin as the successor to the department for GDR injustices and district crime. It is responsible for corruption offenses throughout the state of Brandenburg.<ref>{{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224175218/http://www.antikorruption.brandenburg.de/sixcms/detail.php?gsid=bb1.c.181444.de |title=Schwerpunktstaatsanwaltschaft Neuruppin}} gesehen am 25. Januar 2011</ref><ref>{{citation|periodical=[[Ruppiner Anzeiger]]|title=Schwerpunktstaatsanwaltschaft für Korruption Neuruppin|date=2011-01-25|language=German
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On September 7, 2002, the 7th Brandenburg Day was held in Neuruppin with approximately 230,000 visitors. In response to the [[Elbe flood]] in July 2002 in Saxony, numerous artists such as [[Udo Lindenberg]] and [[Gerhard Schöne]] donated their fees in support of the flood victims.<ref>{{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224124916/http://www.brandenburg-tag.de/ |title=Der traditionelle Brandenburg-Tag}}, retrieved 28 February 2010.</ref> In May 2009, it became public knowledge for the first time that the groundwater under a new development area at Ruppiner See was contaminated with [[halogenated hydrocarbons]]. The district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin, as the responsible environmental authority, admitted to having known about the environmental contamination since 1999 through measurements taken during earlier construction projects.<ref>Alexander Fröhlich: [http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/Brandenburg-Grundwasser-Altlasten-Neuruppin;art128,2830046 ''Verseuchtes Grundwasser - Anzeigen gegen Umweltbehörde''], Tagesspiegel 23 June 2009, retrieved 28 February 2009.</ref>

On May 12, 2011, the iodine-containing thermal brine pool in Neuruppin received the first state recognition of a [[medicinal spring]] in the state of Brandenburg.<ref>{{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718203614/http://www.mugv.brandenburg.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=500454&_siteid=15 |title=Pressemitteilung des Ministeriums für Umwelt, Gesundheit und Verbraucherschutz Brandenburg vom 12. Mai 2011}}</ref> The thermal brine pool is used by the Fontane-Therme on the edge of the old town for wellness operations and heating purposes.