One day in Minden 🇩🇪 GERMANY

One day in 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. It is the capital of the district (Kreis) of Minden-Lübbecke, which is part of the region of Detmold. The town extends along both sides of the River Weser, and is crossed by the Mittelland Canal, which crosses the river on the Minden Aqueduct.
What to see in one day in Minden?
•The Evangelical Lutheran St. Mary's Church is a church built in Minden, East Westphalia, and dates back to the Marienstift founded in Minden at the end of the 10th century. Construction of the church began around 1022 and was expanded piece by piece. Initially without a tower, it was later built to the west of the actual church, which has been a Protestant parish church since the Reformation.
•At the weekly market in Minden on Martinikirchplatz you can buy bread, baked goods, flowers, plants, fruit, vegetables, spices, tea, herbs, berries, oil, dairy products, eggs, fish and meat, sausage, horse meat and sausage, poultry, asparagus , delicatessen, sheep's milk products, tropical fruits and berries.
•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 (Hochstift) of Minden, until the time of the Peace of Westphalia (1648), when Minden was secularized as the Principality of Minden (which lasted until 1806). Today the church belongs to the diocese of Paderborn.
•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 thus shapes the cityscape of the city of Minden. It belonged to the St. Martini Monastery, which was only dissolved in 1810.
•The Minden Museum was opened in 1922 in the East Westphalian city of Minden. The museum houses extensive collections on the history, regional and folklore of the former Minden Abbey and today's Minden-Lübbecke district. After extensive reconstruction of the buildings, it was reopened in October 2012 to mark its 100th anniversary and now houses an area for special exhibitions in addition to an exhibition on the 1,200-year history of the city of Minden.
•The LWL-Preußenmuseum Minden is a historical museum in the East Westphalian city of Minden in North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 2016 it has been part of the LWL museum network of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association. The museum building is the former defense barracks of Minden Fortress on Simeonsplatz in a military suburb of the city of Minden that was built after 1815 and has numerous buildings that still exist today. The square is surrounded by today's Minden Glacis.
•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.
•13 meters above the mean water level of the Weser and ten meters above the Weser meadows, the Mittelland Canal crosses the river almost in the middle of the city of Minden.
•The Weser is a river of Lower Saxony in north-west Germany. It begins at Hannoversch Münden through the confluence of the Werra and Fulda. It passes through the Hanseatic city of Bremen. Its mouth is 50 km (31 mi) further north against the ports of Bremerhaven and Nordenham. The latter is on the Butjadingen Peninsula. It then merges into the North Sea via two highly saline, estuarine mouths.
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