Recreation & Leisure - Best Western Hotel Helmstedt am Lappwald

Worth knowing

From the first written mention in the year 952 to the end of the division of Germany, the former university and Hanseatic city of Helmstedt can look back on a long and turbulent past. Let yourself be enchanted by the historic ambience on a tour of the Old Town and discover more than 400 professors' houses and half-timbered buildings from the 16th and 17th centuries in the center. Admire the Juleum, the palatial Renaissance building of the former Helmstedt University and the large monastery churches in and around Helmstedt. Helmstedt a city that lies in the middle of the Elm-Lappwald Nature Park. Enjoy beautiful hiking trails, ponds and parks in the nearby Brunnental. Helmstedt is a city literally "limitless". At their gates was the largest European east-west border crossing. With the project Grenzenlos - Wege zum Nachbar, you will experience first hand German-German history on a tour that includes the Grenzdenkmal Hötensleben as part of the formerly impermeable border, the memorial site Deutsche Marienborn as a symbol for the permeable part of the border and a visit to the Zonal border. Helmstedt Museum includes. Whether cinema, discos or shopping, in Helmstedt almost everything is possible.