Heessen Castle is situated on the Lippe River on the outskirts of the town of Hamm, in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.
The castle dates back to the 15th century and was built in a neo-gothic style. It is surrounded by a lovely park and, besides its many historical and modern buildings, the castle grounds also feature a small island in the Lippe River.
Hamm offers many public green spaces, among them Maximilian Park with its huge glass elephant, the landmark of the town.
Our German courses in Hamm are held at Heessen Castle boarding school. Heessen Castle combines tradition and modern comfort and offers our young students a great variety of leisure time opportunities. The former manor of knights is surrounded by lush green meadows, trees, rivers, as well as a small island on the Lippe River. In addition to the Gothic three-winged main building, the gorgeous castle premises comprise a modern school building and the students’ dormitories.
Our students are housed in the castle’s dormitories in twin, triple and quadruple rooms with shared facilities. Wifi is available.
We carefully choose the students who will share a room with each other. We take care to match roommates who have a comparable German language level and are of similar age, yet speak different native languages. This way we encourage them to speak and practice German with each other outside of the classroom. Boys and girls are housed separately.
Laundry service is offered to all students free of charge once a week for their personal laundry. Bed linen and towels will be provided and changed regularly.
A wide variety of activities are offered on campus for our young students to ensure they have fun and enjoy diversity in their leisure time. We regularly organize bicycle trips in the surrounding areas on our school-owned mountain bikes.
Every day we offer an attractive and varied activity program with sports, games or cultural events for the leisure time after class. Our staff will encourage and motivate students to participate in the activities. This leisure program is included in the tuition fees.
The following leisure activities are offered:
BasketballEvery Saturday, our staff members organize and accompany full-day excursions to attractive destinations. Every Wednesday, our students will have half-day excursions to sights and interesting towns within the region. The excursions and the entrance fees are already included in the course fee. Some of our offers include:
Hamm
Cologne
Münster
Teutoburg Forest
We guarantee reliable around-the-clock supervision, both during the excursions as well as throughout the whole course. All students are expected to attend all classes, meals and scheduled activities and excursions.
At Heessen Castle (Hamm) the Humboldt-Institut offers German summer courses for children. All courses are offered as a full-package including accommodation, full board, daily activities and excursions.
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All courses include all lessons, course materials, housing accommodations, full board, 24-hour supervision, daily activity program, weekly excursions (including entrance fees), laundry service and a certificate.
Our day of arrival is the Sunday before the course starts and the departure day is the Saturday after the end of the course.
We will pick up our students from the Hamm (Westfalen) railway station free of charge.
We can arrange a transfer service for a fee from and to the airport Düsseldorf (DUS).
Aiport Düsseldorf (DUS)
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