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.
- Type: Town with 25,700 residents
- Description: municipality of Germany
- Also known as: “Stadt Helmstedt”, “Xelmshtedt”, “Хелмштедт”, “Хелмщед”, “Ҳелмстедт”, “הלמשטט”, “هلم اشتات”, and “هلمشتات”
- Postal code: 38350
Places of Interest
Highlights: Helmstedt station and St. Ludger’s Abbey.
Türkentor
City gate
Helmstedt
Latitude
52.2277° or 52° 13′ 40″ north
Longitude
11.0105° or 11° 0′ 38″ east
Population
25,700
Elevation
136 metres (446 feet)
UN/LOCODE
DE HEL
Open location code
9F4H62H6+35
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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: “Гельмштэт”
- Belarusian: “Гэльмштэт”
- Belarusian: “Хельмштэт”
- Breton: “Helmstedt”
- Bulgarian: “Хелмщет”
- Catalan: “Helmstedt”
- Cebuano: “Helmstedt”
- Chechen: “Хельмштедт”
- Chinese: “黑尔姆斯特”
- Chinese: “黑尔姆施泰特”
- Chinese: “黑爾姆施泰特”
- Czech: “Helmstedt”
- Danish: “Helmstedt”
- Dutch: “Helmstedt”
- Esperanto: “Helmstedt”
- Estonian: “Helmstedt”
- Finnish: “Helmstedt”
- French: “Helmstedt”
- German: “Helmstedt”
- German: “Helmstädt” (historical)
- Greek: “Χέλμστετ”
- Hebrew: “הלמשטדט”
- Hungarian: “Helmstedt”
- Irish: “Helmstedt”
- Italian: “Helmstedt”
- Japanese: “ヘルムシュテット”
- Kazakh: “Xelʹmştedt”
- Kazakh: “Хельмштедт”
- Kazakh: “حەلمشتەدت”
- Kirghiz: “Хельмштедт”
- Korean: “헬름슈테트”
- Kurdish: “Helmstedt”
- Ladin: “Helmstedt”
- Latin: “Helmstadium”
- Latvian: “Helmštete”
- Low German: “Helmestee”
- Low German: “Helmestidde”
- Low German: “Helmstidde”
- Macedonian: “Хелмштет”
- Malay: “Helmstedt”
- Moksha: “Гэльмштэдт”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Helmstedt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Helmstedt”
- Norwegian: “Helmstedt”
- Old Saxon: “Helmonstede [a. 952]”
- Persian: “هلماشتات”
- Persian: “هلمشتت”
- Polish: “Helmstedt”
- Portuguese: “Helmstedt”
- Romanian: “Helmstedt”
- Russian: “Хельмштедт”
- Scots: “Helmstedt”
- Serbian: “Helmštet”
- Serbian: “Хелмштет”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Helmstedt”
- Slovak: “Helmstedt”
- Slovenian: “Helmstedt”
- Spanish: “Helmstedt”
- Swedish: “Helmstedt”
- Tatar: “Хельмштедт”
- Tatar: “Һелмштедт”
- Tumbuka: “Helmstedt”
- Turkish: “Helmstedt”
- Ukrainian: “Гельмштедт”
- Urdu: “ہیلمسٹیڈٹ”
- Uzbek: “Helmstedt”
- Vietnamese: “Helmstedt”
- Volapük: “Helmstedt”
- Waray (Philippines): “Helmstedt”
- Welsh: “Helmstedt”
- “Helmstedt”
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