--- title: "Minden – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Minden, Germany: Minden is a middle-sized town in the very north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the largest town in population between Bielefeld…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/minden" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/minden.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Blaubeuren_Blautopf_20180804_02.jpg/1920px-Blaubeuren_Blautopf_20180804_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany # 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Blaubeuren_Blautopf_20180804_02.jpg/1920px-Blaubeuren_Blautopf_20180804_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Minden · Uoaei1 The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minden), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 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. 4.8 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. 200 m · 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. 4.9 km · mountain near Porta Westfalica, Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittekindsberg) 4. Minden 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minden_Aqueduct) 5. Jakobsberg 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakobsberg_(Porta_Westfalica%29) 6. Minden 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minden_Museum_Railway) 7. Jakobsberg 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakobsberg_Telecommunication_Tower) 8. 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. 800 m · museum in Minden · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LWL-Preu%C3%9Fenmuseum_Minden) 9. 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. 200 m · theatre in Minden, Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadttheater_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 **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 → Minden 56 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · €8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/hannover-to-minden) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Hannover&to=Minden) - Büren → Minden 86 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · €11–16 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/buren-to-minden) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=B%C3%BCren&to=Minden) - Bremen → Minden 88 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · €10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bremen-to-minden) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bremen&to=Minden) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Minden) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Minden 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. 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 287 km 2. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 485 km 3. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 702 km 4. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 729 km 5. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 909 km If you know how people move in Minden – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cminden&title=Minden&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fminden), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Minden Minden is 39 km from [Bielefeld](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bielefeld), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Porta Westfalica](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/porta-westfalica) town in the district of Minden-Lübbecke, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 5.4 km - [Minden-Lübbecke District](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/minden-lubbecke-district) district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 800 m - [Minden Coalfield](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/minden-coalfield) Coalfield located in the northern Wiehen foothills near the German town of Minden 3.6 km [The place page for Minden](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/minden) [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, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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