museum
Autostadt Wolfsburg
Volkswagen's massive automotive theme park and museum complex where visitors can collect their new cars from glass towers.
27 km · about 30 min drive
Lower Saxony, Germany · Europe
Helmstedt is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Harbke, 46km from Wernigerode Castle.
Helmstedt is a town located in Lower Saxony, Germany. With a population of 25,515, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Helmstedt sits in Germany, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Berlin time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Helmstedt to your route.
Helmstedt (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛlmˌʃtɛt] ; Eastphalian: Helmstidde) is a town on the eastern edge of the German state of Lower Saxony. It is the capital of the District of Helmstedt. The historic university and Hanseatic city conserves an important monumental heritage of Romanesque and Renaissance buildings, asRead more
well as numerous timber framed houses. During the German partition the nearby Bundesautobahn 2 was the site of the Helmstedt–Marienborn border crossing, the most important on the former inner German border as starting point of the shortest land route between West Germany and West Berlin.
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Helmstedt is located in Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe. The coordinates are 52.2279 latitude, 11.0099 longitude.
Helmstedt has a population of approximately 25,515 people, making it a town in Germany.
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ADAC roadside assistance: +49 89 22 22 22. No general speed limit on some autobahn sections but advisory 130 km/h.
Full driving guide for Germany6 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
Volkswagen's massive automotive theme park and museum complex where visitors can collect their new cars from glass towers.
27 km · about 30 min drive
racetrack
Fast, flowing 3.7 km circuit near Magdeburg that stages DTM, superbikes and public track days: a favourite for affordable open-pitlane driving in eastern Germany.
29 km · about 35 min drive
castle
A romantic neo-Gothic castle perched above a colourful half-timbered town, the picturesque gateway to the Harz mountains.
46 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
Over 1,300 half-timbered houses spanning eight centuries cluster below the Romanesque collegiate church where Germany's first king lies buried; UNESCO-listed yet still missing from most itineraries.
49 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
A UNESCO imperial town at the foot of the Harz, with 1,500 half-timbered houses and a thousand-year-old mine.
53 km · about 60 min drive
scenic viewpoint
The Harz's highest peak at 1,141m, wreathed in legend and mist and reached by a historic steam railway.
55 km · about 65 min drive
April to October
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