Schôningen means museum. You can visit the DDR border around here but for the spears you need to enter the museum. I arrived quite late so the lady gave me a discount to visit. It's a good museum and has lots of info on the flora and fauna for the last 300,000 years. It should take you 2h to visit thus I appreciate the discount as I only went to see the spears in detail.

You get to those in a while as you waltz past all the stuff you saw in other museums before, or at least you would have as a world heritage visitor. All displays are very detailed and in German and English - totally worth seeing. The spears are only one room next to flint stones and horse remains. There is also a video on how they are important and more details as you may guess.

Schöningen gave us an overview of how spears were important to humans, not just for hunting. It also explains why the spears when damaged or not hunt worthy were still used for other purposes. Other sites will just see skulls and maybe other bones but spears are a new discovery and definitely with such an amount.

If you don't have interest in even the small amount of prehistoric animals and human remains then the spears won't interest you much either. It's an easy drive otherwise, with a huge museum in the middle of nowhere, a small playground and cafe next to it and lots of hiking in the area.