From a former forester's lodge to a modern environmental information center.
The village of Prora was probably established by the von Putbus family only around 1800. The origin of the settlement, which is located a little away from the sea in the large forests near the Jasmund Bodden, was a forester's lodge in the style of historicism, which was modeled after the hunting lodge Granitz. It was probably built between 1864 and 1867. The first known mention of the Prora forester's lodge is in 1867, with seven inhabitants. The Prora forester's lodge is located directly on the B 196a, from Prora in the direction of Karow, on the left hand side of the approximately 1,900-hectare Prora/ Stedar-Pulitz property. At that time, the forester of the Prince of Putbus resided here. In GDR times it was then the seat of the forestry administration and until 1992 it still had tenants. The last occupant is said to have been the district forester of Prora. After that the decay of the forester's house began. In the spring of 2009, the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (German Federal Foundation for the Environment) took over the "Alte Forsthaus Prora" in order to build an environmental information center on the site of the former Prora military forest on the Island of Rügen, which is now the Naturerbe Zentrum Rügen (Natural Heritage Center Rügen).
