Note: I was with Helmstedt Support Detachment of Berlin
Brigade. The Detachment was in Helmstedt. I was there 1970-1972.
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Helmstedt, Germany

city, Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany, east
of Brunswick. Probably founded in the 9th century, it was
chartered in 1050, joined the Hanseatic League in 1426, and
passed to Brunswick in 1490. In 1576 Julius, Duke of
Brunswick, founded a university there that became one of the
chief seats of Protestant learning in the 17th century; closed by
Jerome, king of Westphalia, in 1810, it was incorporated into the
University of G?ttingen. 

From 1945 to 1990 Helmstedt was an important frontier post
between East and West Germany. Its principal buildings are the
Renaissance Juleum (1592-97), the former university; the
13th-century Stephans Church, and the former Ludgerian
monastery (founded 9th century). The city's chief products are
brown coal, yarn, bricks, and machinery. Pop. (1989 est.)
26,554. 
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To cite this page:
"Helmstedt" Britannica Online. 
http://www.eb.com:180/cgi-bin/g?DocF=micro/265/80.html 
[Accessed 20 July 1998].