What to See in Minden - Top Sights and Attractions

Navigable aqueduct in Minden, Germany. 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. The older of the two bridges is no longer used for shipping. After the Magdeburg Water Bridge, it is the second biggest aqueduct in Europe.

The aqueduct is part of an intersection of waterways: the Mittelland Canal is connected with the Weser by two branch, or link, canals.^[1]

Dome in Minden, Germany. 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, it 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. Today the church belongs to the diocese of Paderborn.^[2]

potts park is a leisure and family adventure park in the district of Dützen in the East Westphalian city of Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Theatre in Minden, Germany. Stadttheater Minden is a municipal theatre in Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The theatre has no ensemble, but stages some productions of its own. It became known for a Wagner project culminating in Der Ring in Minden.^[3]

St. Mary's Church is a church built in Minden, East Westphalia, and dates back to St. Mary's Convent founded in Minden at the end of the 10th century. Around 1022, the construction of the church began and was expanded piece by piece. Initially still without a tower, this was later built to the west of the actual church, which has been a Protestant parish church since the Reformation.

The church of St. Martini in the East Westphalian city of Minden is a church building that stands centrally in the old city center of Minden on the edge of the upper Old Town Terrace, and is thus characteristic for the silhouette of the city of Minden. It belonged to the monastery of St. Martini, which was dissolved only in 1810.

The church was founded shortly before 1029 and is built in Romanesque and Gothic style. In 1530, in the course of the Reformation, the church became Evangelical Lutheran. It was here that Nikolaus Krage read out the Protestant church order he had written, the first in Westphalia. The church building was entered in the monument protection list of the city of Minden.

The Rampenloch is a street in the East Westphalian city of Minden in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. For a long time the street consisted almost exclusively of brothels. Today the brothels are gone and the street is to be redeveloped.

The history of prostitution in Minden can be traced back to the Middle Ages. The first written records come from this time; it attracted particular attention at the beginning of the 19th century during the Prussian garrison period. The history of prostitution in Minden is so closely interwoven with the history of this street that the ramp hole has become a local synonym for prostitution.^[4]

The Evangelical Reformed Church of St. Peter in Minden, Westphalia, was built between 1739 and 1743 and is the church of the Reformed congregation in Minden, East Westphalia, founded in 1651. It is located in the upper old town of Minden on Ritterstraße and, together with the parish hall, the rectory, the former parish widow's house and two other residential buildings, forms a listed ensemble. It is the only Protestant Reformed church in the otherwise mainly Evangelical Lutheran Minden church district of the Protestant Church of Westphalia. Its parishioners come from all over the region of the old principality of Minden.

Minden Synagogue is a Jewish house of assembly and worship for prayer, scriptural study and instruction, and the seat of today's Jewish Religious Community of Minden and the surrounding area. The synagogue is located in the upper Old Town of the East Westphalian city of Minden.

The Old Cemetery of Minden is a listed cemetery complex in the East Westphalian city of Minden. It is located in the Königsglacis west of the city center in front of the old fortress walls and thus outside the old fortified city.