Minden
Minden is a middle-sized town in the very north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the largest town in population between Bielefeld and Hanover.
Minden is a middle-sized town in the very north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the largest town in population between Bielefeld and Hanover. It is the capital of the district of Minden-Lübbecke, situated in the cultural region of Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL) and the administrative region of Detmold. The town extends along both sides of the River Weser, and is crossed by the Mittelland Canal, which is led over the river on the Minden Aqueduct.
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Worth seeing in and around Minden
9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Emperor William Monument
The Emperor William Monument, near the town of Porta Westfalica in the North Rhine-Westphalian county of Minden-Lübbecke, is a colossal monument above the Weser gorge of Porta Westfalica, the "Gateway to Westphalia". It was erected to honour the first German Emperor, William I, by the then Prussian Province of Westphalia between 1892 and 1896 and emerged against the background of a rising German national identity.
4.8 km · colossal monument near Porta Westfalica in North Rhine-Westphalian, Germany · Wikipedia - 02Minden Cathedral
Minden Cathedral, dedicated to Saints Gorgonius and Peter, is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. From the year 803 AD, when the area was conquered by Charlemagne, Minden was the center of a diocese and subsequently became the center of a small sovereign state, a prince-bishopric of Minden, until the time of the Peace of Westphalia, when Minden was secularized as the Principality of Minden.
200 m · church in Minden, Germany · Wikipedia - 03Wittekindsberg
The Wittekindsberg is a hill, 281.48 m above sea level, which forms the easternmost peak of the Wiehen Hills and is also the western guardian of the Weser gorge, the Porta Westfalica, in North Rhine-Westphalia. The hill is well-known, especially as the site of the Emperor William Monument, but also for the Moltke Tower and Wittekind Castle.
4.9 km · mountain near Porta Westfalica, Germany · Wikipedia - 04Minden Aqueduct
The Minden Aqueduct is an aqueduct near Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It actually consists of two parallel water bridges, that lead the Mittelland Canal over the Weser.
1.9 km · navigable aqueduct · Wikipedia - 05Jakobsberg
The Jakobsberg is a hill, 235.2 m above sea level, that forms the westernmost peak of the Wesergebirge chain and is the eastern guardian of the Weser gorge, the Porta Westfalica or "Westphalian Gate", in North Rhine-Westphalia. The summit is the site of the Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower, which stands on the site of a former Bismarck Tower, near the Bismarckburg Inn, the Schlageter Monument and the Porta Bluff.
5.3 km · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia - 06Minden Museum Railway
The Minden Museum Railway or MEM was founded in 1977 as a society. Its aim was to preserve historic railway vehicles and operate them on the Minden District Railway.
1.4 km · museum railway in Minden (Germany) · Wikipedia - 07Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower
Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower is a 142-metre-tall TV tower built of reinforced concrete on the 238-metre-high elevated Jakobsberg near Porta Westfalica. Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower was built May 1, 1974 and September 28, 1978 as replacement for a small telecommunication tower also equipped with an observation deck, which was built in 1952 on the site of the former Bismarck column, erected in 1902.
5.4 km · tower · Wikipedia - 08Museum of Prussia
The LWL Prussian Museum is a history museum located in the East Westphalian town of Minden in North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 2016, it has been part of the network of LWL museums run by the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe.
800 m · museum in Minden · Wikipedia - 09Stadttheater Minden
Stadttheater Minden is a municipal theatre in Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The theatre has no ensemble, but stages some productions of its own.
200 m · theatre in Minden, Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Minden
- Airports
- Hannover (HAJ), 56 km · Paderborn Lippstadt (PAD), 78 km · Bremen (BRE), 85 km
- Stations
- Minden station, 1.2 km · Porta Westfalica station, 5 km
- Hannover → Minden56 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · €8–11
- Büren → Minden86 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · €11–16
- Bremen → Minden88 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · €10–14
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Next door to Minden
Minden is 39 km from Bielefeld, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Porta Westfalicatown in the district of Minden-Lübbecke, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany5.4 km
- Minden-Lübbecke Districtdistrict in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany800 m
- Minden CoalfieldCoalfield located in the northern Wiehen foothills near the German town of Minden3.6 km