Helmstedt
Helmstedt is a city in the Brunswick Land in Lower Saxony, Germany. In the second half of the 20th century, Helmstedt and its eastern neighboir Marienborn were best known as the largest checkpoint, Checkpoint Alpha, along the inter-German border during the division of Germany.Places of Interest
Highlights: Helmstedt station and St. Ludger’s Abbey.
Türkentor
City gate
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mariental and Wolsdorf.
Mariental
Village
Photo: Harald Hartge, Public domain.Wolsdorf
Village
Helmstedt
- Type: Locality with 25,100 residents
- Also known as: “03154028”, “Stadt Helmstedt”, and “黑爾姆斯特”
- Location: Helmstedt (district), Lower Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
52.2316° or 52° 13′ 54″ north
Longitude
11.0018° or 11° 0′ 6″ east
Population
25,100
Elevation
120 metres (394 feet)
Open location code
9F4H62J2+JP
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Helmstedt” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Helmshtet”
- Arabic: “هلمشتيت”
- Armenian: “Հելմշտեդտ”
- Bashkir: “Хельмштедт”
- Basque: “Helmstedt”
- Belarusian: “Хельмштэт”
- Breton: “Helmstedt”
- Bulgarian: “Хелмщет”
- Cebuano: “Helmstedt”
- Chechen: “Хельмштедт”
- Chinese: “黑尔姆斯特”
- Czech: “Helmstedt”
- Danish: “Helmstedt”
- Dutch: “Helmstedt”
- Esperanto: “Helmstedt”
- Estonian: “Helmstedt”
- French: “Helmstedt”
- German: “Helmstedt”
- Greek: “Χέλμστετ”
- Hebrew: “הלמשטדט”
- Hungarian: “Helmstedt”
- Irish: “Helmstedt”
- Italian: “Helmstedt”
- Japanese: “ヘルムシュテット”
- Kazakh: “Хельмштедт”
- Kirghiz: “Хельмштедт”
- Korean: “헬름슈테트”
- Kurdish: “Helmstedt”
- Ladin: “Helmstedt”
- Latin: “Helmstadium”
- Latvian: “Helmštete”
- Low German: “Helmstidde”
- Macedonian: “Хелмштет”
- Malay: “Helmstedt”
- Moksha: “Гэльмштэдт”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Helmstedt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Helmstedt”
- Persian: “هلمشتت”
- Polish: “Helmstedt”
- Portuguese: “Helmstedt”
- Romanian: “Helmstedt”
- Russian: “Хельмштедт”
- Scots: “Helmstedt”
- Serbian: “Хелмштет”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Helmstedt”
- Slovak: “Helmstedt”
- Slovenian: “Helmstedt”
- Spanish: “Helmstedt”
- Swedish: “Helmstedt”
- Tatar: “Һелмштедт”
- Tumbuka: “Helmstedt”
- Turkish: “Helmstedt”
- Ukrainian: “Гельмштедт”
- Uzbek: “Helmstedt”
- Vietnamese: “Helmstedt”
- Volapük: “Helmstedt”
- Waray (Philippines): “Helmstedt”
- Welsh: “Helmstedt”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Emmerstedt and Elz.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Sankt Annen-Berg and Silberberg.
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Worth a closer look: Hanover and Göttingen.
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