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 |
Photo: Wolkenkratzer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Times, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 25,700 residents
- Description: municipality of Germany
- Also known as: “Stadt Helmstedt”
- Postal code: 38350
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.
Helmstedt
Latitude
52.2277° or 52° 13′ 40″ northLongitude
11.0105° or 11° 0′ 38″ eastPopulation
25,700Elevation
136 metres (446 feet)United Nations Location Code
DE HELOpen location code
9F4H62H6+35OpenStreetMap ID
node 240058783OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Helmstedt” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Helmshtet”
- Arabic: “هلم اشتات”
- Arabic: “هلمشتات”
- Arabic: “هلمشتيت”
- Armenian: “Հելմշտեդտ”
- Bashkir: “Хельмштедт”
- Basque: “Helmstedt”
- Belarusian: “Гельмштэт”
- Belarusian: “Хельмштэт”
- Breton: “Helmstedt”
- Bulgarian: “Хелмщед”
- 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”
- Hebrew: “הלמשטט”
- 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: “Helmstedt”
- Low German: “Helmstidde”
- Macedonian: “Хелмштет”
- Malay: “Helmstedt”
- Moksha: “Гэльмштэдт”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Helmstedt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Helmstedt”
- Norwegian: “Helmstedt”
- Old Saxon: “Helmonstede [a. 952]”
- Persian: “هلم اشتات”
- Persian: “هلماشتات”
- Persian: “هلمشتت”
- Polish: “Helmstedt”
- Portuguese: “Helmstedt”
- Romanian: “Helmstedt”
- Russian: “Гельмштедт”
- Russian: “Хельмштедт”
- Scots: “Helmstedt”
- Serbian: “Helmstedt”
- Serbian: “Helmštet”
- Serbian: “Хелмштет”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Helmstedt”
- Slovak: “Helmstedt”
- Slovenian: “Helmstedt”
- Spanish: “Helmstedt”
- Swedish: “Helmstädt”
- Swedish: “Helmstedt”
- Tatar: “Хельмштедт”
- Tatar: “Һелмштедт”
- Tumbuka: “Helmstedt”
- Turkish: “Helmstedt”
- Ukrainian: “Гельмштедт”
- Uzbek: “Helmstedt”
- Uzbek: “Xelmshtedt”
- Uzbek: “Хелмштедт”
- Uzbek: “Ҳелмстедт”
- Vietnamese: “Helmstedt”
- Volapük: “Helmstedt”
- Waray (Philippines): “Helmstedt”
- Welsh: “Helmstedt”
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