--- title: "Minden Coalfield – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Minden Coalfield, Germany: The Minden Coalfield is located in the northern Wiehen foothills near the German town of Minden. Nearby: Emperor William…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/minden-coalfield" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/minden-coalfield.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Potts_Park_Eingang.jpg/1920px-Potts_Park_Eingang.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Place · Germany # Minden Coalfield The Minden Coalfield is located in the northern Wiehen foothills near the German town of Minden. ![Minden Coalfield](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Potts_Park_Eingang.jpg/1920px-Potts_Park_Eingang.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Minden Coalfield · Aeggy 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minden_Coalfield), CC BY-SA 4.0. 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_William_Monument_(Porta_Westfalica%29) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minden_Cathedral) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittekindsberg) 4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadttheater_Minden) 5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LWL-Preu%C3%9Fenmuseum_Minden) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## 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\ - Hannover → Minden Coalfield Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/hannover-to-minden-coalfield) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Hannover&to=Minden+Coalfield) - Büren → Minden Coalfield Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/buren-to-minden-coalfield) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=B%C3%BCren&to=Minden+Coalfield) - Greven → Minden Coalfield Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/greven-to-minden-coalfield) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Greven&to=Minden+Coalfield) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Minden%20Coalfield) Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Minden Coalfield 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 1. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 285 km 2. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 488 km 3. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 699 km 4. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 726 km 5. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 907 km If you know how people move in Minden Coalfield – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cminden-coalfield&title=Minden+Coalfield&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fminden-coalfield), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Minden Coalfield Minden Coalfield is 35 km from [Bielefeld](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bielefeld), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Minden](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/minden) town in the Minden-Lübbecke district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 3.6 km - [Minden-Lübbecke District](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/minden-lubbecke-district) district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 2.8 km - [Porta Westfalica](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/porta-westfalica) valley in Minden-Lübbecke District, Germany 3.6 km - [Minden-Lübbecke I](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/minden-lubbecke-i) federal electoral district of Germany 3.7 km [The place page for Minden Coalfield](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/minden-coalfield) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Germany](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-DE) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/minden-coalfield, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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