St Ludger's Monastery

On the east side of Helmstedt is the Benedictine monastery of St Ludger, founded in the ninth century and dissolved in 1803 (Imperial Hall, with fine Baroque stucco decoration). It is entered by the handsome Türkentor (1716). In the courtyard is the double chapel of SS. Peter and John (c. 1050). Beneath the church (Romanesque; much altered in 1556 and in 1890) is a Romanesque crypt (11th C.).