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Helenabrunn, Viersen — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Helenabrunn is an Ortsteil in the south of Alt-Viersen, named by legend for Saint Helena, and its spring is first mentioned around 1470.
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It sits on the Mönchengladbach line. Helenabrunn lies in the south of the Alt-Viersen Stadtbezirk right up against the city boundary, so the two towns run together here more than the map suggests. Older maps give other names.
Helenebrunn appears on some, and Lenebour is what the local Low Franconian dialect calls it. Parish, not council, is what marks it out. It has been an Ortsteil of Alt-Viersen for centuries with no administration of its own, but it forms a Catholic parish district covering Heimer, Ummer, Ompert and Bötzlöh as well.
About Helenabrunn
What are the main landmarks in Helenabrunn?
A spring gave the place its name. Legend has Saint Helena, mother of the emperor Constantine, quenching her thirst at a spring here during a pilgrimage, and the Helena-Brunnen is first mentioned around 1470. Stone came a century later.
Helenabrunn's first stone chapel was built in 1576, which is the oldest dated building on the record. An earthwork lies southeast. The Neuwerker Landwehr was raised between 1420 and 1424 about six hundred metres from the village core, near where the Mönchengladbach Nord junction on the A 52 now stands.
What is the history of Helenabrunn?
Geldern held it first. Alt-Viersen became an exclave of the Amt Krickenbeck within the duchy of Geldern from 1340, and Helenabrunn belonged to it as part of that. Defence works came in the 1420s.
The Neuwerker Landwehr was built between 1420 and 1424 southeast of the village, and the Helena-Brunnen itself is first mentioned around 1470. Habsburg rule followed. Geldern lost its independence for good in 1543 and passed as part of the Burgundian Netherlands to the emperor Charles V, who was duke of Burgundy at the same time.
Spain came next. On Charles's abdication in 1556 the Netherlands went to his son Philip, who ruled Spain as Philip II, so Helenabrunn became part of the Spanish Netherlands. War began in 1568.
The Dutch war of independence started that year, but Spanish rule over the Gelderland Upper Quarter, which included Viersen, held for the time being, and the first stone chapel went up here in 1576.
Where is Helenabrunn?
Helenabrunn lies in the south of the Alt-Viersen Stadtbezirk of Viersen, immediately against the Mönchengladbach city boundary, with the A 52 and its Mönchengladbach Nord junction to the southeast.
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Updated September 2026