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Start: Minden Cathedral, city center

Minden Old Town Route

Discover historic Minden on your own with your smartphone: Experience the Minden Old Town Route on Germany's first Beacon Mile:

Simply download the Minden APP from the Google Playstore or the Apple Store. You can also use the free Minden WLAN. Activate Bluetooth on your smartphone. As soon as you are on the Old Town route, you will receive push notifications about the sights on your smartphone and can experience Minden in sound and vision, just like with an audio guide.

A stroll through Minden's upper and lower town is as diverse and full of variety as the history of Minden. In the small cobbled streets, you can feel like you've been transported back to the Middle Ages, when craftsmen and merchants still plied their trade in the narrow, closely connected timbered houses.

Nearby you will come across the proud and representative merchants' and noblemen's houses from the 16th century, which convey an impressive picture of the self-confidence and wealth of this era. In between, romantic corners and ivy-covered façades invite you to linger and contemplate in peace.

The more than 1000-year-old cathedral, in which Romanesque and Gothic architectural styles are harmoniously combined, is considered the most beautiful hall church in Germany and you should definitely not miss out on a visit. A few steps further on is the town hall with the oldest town hall arbour in Westphalia.

Lively shopping streets and shopping arcades alternate with quiet alleyways and wide squares. Romanesque, Gothic, Weser Renaissance, Classicism and Historicism characterise the cityscape and give it its unmistakable charm. Here you can forget everyday life for a few hours and let yourself be enchanted.

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Minden Cathedral, city center

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Directions

Start: Cathedral main entrance (Kleiner Domhof) > With your back to the cathedral, walk straight ahead towards the historic town hall (Markt 1) > On the market square: Haus Schmieding (Markt 20), Löwenapotheke (Markt 8), department stores' (Markt 6) > Speicherhäuser Hofviertel (small passage, Markt 14 - 16) > Via the Martinitreppe to the "Upper Old Town" > Martinikirchhof with the Ratskirche St. Martini on the left, on the Martinikirchhof on the right, the Proviantmagazin (Martinikirchhof 6) and straight ahead the former Ratskirche St. Martini. Martini on the left, in the Martinikirchhof on the right, the provisions magazine (Martinikirchhof 6) and straight ahead the former army bakery (Martinikirchhof 6). Heeresbäckerei (Martinikirchhof 7) > Alte Münze (Brüderstraße 2) > Mindener Museum, Museumszeile (Ritterstraße 23 - 33) > Schnurrviertel (Friedensplatz) > Hansehaus (Papenmarkt 2) > Windloch (Martinikirchhof 10) > back to the market, again via the Martinitreppe to the "Untere Altstadt" > Haus Hagemeyer (Scharn 17) > turn right into Bäckerstraße Haus Hill (Bäckerstraße 45) > Johanniskirche with BÜZ cultural centre and historic buildings: Haus Voss (Johanniskirchhof 2), Haus am Johanniskirchhof 6 > turn left back into Bäckerstraße and via Tränke through the subway to Schlagde on the Weser > along the Weser promenade to the Glacis bridge/pedestrian bridge > turn right via Tonhallenstraße back into the city centre.

Tour information

Loop Road
Stop at an Inn

Directions & Parking facilities

A2 Dortmund-Hanover: Exit Porta Westfalica / Minden

A2 Hannover-Dortmund: Exit Bad Eilsen/West and follow the signs

From Bremen:B61 direction Minden

A parking guidance system informs you about the current parking situation in Minden throughout the city center. Numerous parking garages are connected to this parking guidance system. You can park free of charge on Kanzlers Weide on the right-hand side of the Weser. A pedestrian bridge over the Weser connects this large parking lot with the city center, which you can reach on foot in 10 minutes. You have a wonderful view of the Weser, the Glacis and the city's churches towering above the trees.
Kanzlers Weide is also the ideal place for a stopover with a motorhome.

Kanzlers Weide, Hausberger Straße, 32423 Minden

Minden main station, Minden ZOB

Additional information

Minden Marketing GmbH
Tourist Information
Domstraße 2
32423 Minden

Tel: 0571 8290659
Fax: 0571 8290663

www.minden-erleben.de
E-mail:info@mindenmarketing.de

Author

Heidi Genrich

Organization

Minden Marketing GmbH

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Heidi Genrich