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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Türkentor and St. Ludger’s Abbey.
Türkentor
City gate
Photo: Times, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Türkentor is a triumphal arch and gateway in Helmstedt in Lower Saxony in Germany. The main entrance to the former St. Ludger's Abbey and a gateway to the Domänenhof, the arch was built in 1716 to celebrate the victory over the Ottomans by Prince Eugene…
St. Ludger’s Abbey
Church
Photo: Times, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Ludger's Abbey was a former monastery of the Benedictine Order in Helmstedt, Lower Saxony, founded by Saint Ludger around 800. Until it was secularised in 1802 it was an Imperial Abbey, with sovereignty over the whole town of Helmstedt until the 15th century.
Helmstedt station
Railway station
Photo: Times, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Helmstedt is a railway station located in Helmstedt, Germany. The station is located on the Brunswick–Magdeburg railway. The trains are run by Deutsche Bahn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mariental and Wolsdorf.
Mariental
Village
Photo: Harald Hartge, Public domain.
Mariental is a municipality in the district of Helmstedt, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The Municipality Mariental includes the villages of Mariental-Dorf and Mariental-Horst. See also Mariental Abbey. Mariental is situated 5 km north of Helmstedt.
Wolsdorf
Village
Photo: Kirchenfan, CC0.
Wolsdorf is a municipality in the district of Helmstedt, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Wolsdorf is situated 6 km southwest of Helmstedt.
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″ northLongitude
11.0018° or 11° 0′ 6″ eastPopulation
25,100Elevation
120 metres (394 feet)Open location code
9F4H62J2+JPGeoNames ID
6557378
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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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