Helmstedt

Built around the Benedictine monastery of St Ludgerus, Helmstedt developed into a historic university town between the Elm hills and the Lappwald forest. The University of Helmstedt, founded in 1576, was among northern Germany’s important early-modern universities; its Juleum Novum remains the city’s most distinctive Renaissance building. East of town, the former Helmstedt–Marienborn border crossing recalls the decades when this route formed a principal transit link between West Germany and East Germany. Timber-framed houses, church towers and traces of the old town walls give the compact centre a strongly regional character. Browse additional webcams from the surrounding area to extend your view of Helmstedt and Lower Saxony.

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