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Minden Coalfield

The Minden Coalfield is located in the northern Wiehen foothills near the German town of Minden.

Minden Coalfield
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The place

The Minden Coalfield is located in the northern Wiehen foothills near the German town of Minden. Here, seams of Wealden Coal (Wealdenkohle) reach the surface of the earth in the Schaumburg Basin. During the Thirty Years' War Swedish soldiers first discovered this black coal near Minden whilst preparing fieldworks on the Bölhorst. By 1663 it was forbidden to dig privately for coal and severe penalties were imposed for doing so.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Minden Coalfield

5 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.

  1. 01
    Emperor 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.

    2.9 km · colossal monument near Porta Westfalica in North Rhine-Westphalian, Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Minden 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.

    3.8 km · church in Minden, Germany · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wittekindsberg

    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.

    2.2 km · mountain near Porta Westfalica, Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Stadttheater 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.

    3.6 km · theatre in Minden, Germany · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Museum 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.

    2.8 km · museum in Minden · Wikipedia

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Getting to Minden Coalfield

Airports
Hannover (HAJ), 59 km · Paderborn Lippstadt (PAD), 75 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 82 km
Stations
Porta Westfalica station, 3.7 km
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  • Büren → Minden Coalfield
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Minden Coalfield. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    285 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    488 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    699 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    726 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    907 km

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Minden Coalfield is 35 km from Bielefeld, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.