Minden city center

Minden city center City of Minden Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 29 " N , 8 ° 54 ′ 47" E
Height :	57 m above sea level NN
Area :	3.77 km²
Residents :	10,381 (Dec 31, 2013)
Population density :	2,754 inhabitants / km²
Postcodes :	32423, 32425, 32427
Area code :	0571
	Location of downtown Minden in Minden

Minden-Innenstadt is the central district of Minden , North Rhine-Westphalia . This is where the central pedestrian areas, the business center, the central bus station and central administrative facilities are located. In addition, there are the most important sights such as the Minden Cathedral , the old town hall , the old town with the old mint and the churches of St. Martin , St. Marien , St. Simeonis and St. Johannis .

The monument to the Great Elector is located in the area of the Weser Gate . The city center is surrounded by the Mindener Glacis .

Location and foundation of the cathedral

The freedom of the cathedral and the location of the cathedral in Minden

Medieval city representation with recognizable freedom from the cathedral

The Minden Cathedral is located in the East Westphalian town of Minden on the Weser in northeastern North Rhine-Westphalia . Minden was located on the southwestern edge of the former diocese of Minden, which extended in the northeast into the Lüneburg Heath . The Minden Cathedral was built as the cathedral of the diocese in the lower old town, i.e. on the lower terrace of the Weser, near the old ford . The Weserfurt formed the last favorable river crossing to Bremen , which is around 100 river kilometers north. The nearest current or former Catholic bishopric churches within a 100-kilometer radius of Minden are in Verden and Bremen in the north, in Paderborn in the south, in Osnabrück in the west and in Hildesheim in the east.

The surface relief of the lower terrace on the western bank of the Weser was not as flat as it appears today. The church was probably built on a shield-like elevation that rose up to 4 meters above the area to the west. This clearly demarcated it from the settlement that followed to the west. The city limits of Minden did not run along the Weser, but along the old course of the Bastau and only touched the Weser at the Weserfurt with a point. The cathedral was thus on an exposed point a little away from the Weser and thus upstream of the city to the east. It was surrounded by the so-called cathedral freedom , it was protected by ramparts and moats. Together with the Johannis Freiheit , the later Wichgrafenhof , the Deichhof, as well as the adjacent development of Markt, Scharn and Bäckerstraße, the cathedral freedom formed the largest part of the flood-prone lower town. The walls of the cathedral freedom were not only formed against the Weser, but also against the city of Minden.

At the level of the old town hall and south of today's Bäckerstraße, remains of the fortifications were found during excavations. The so-called Domburg Minden has an area of approximately 250 m × 170 m and thus comes close to the facilities in Paderborn and Münster . From the 11th century onwards, the cathedral freedom was increasingly built in accordance with church purposes, and at the same time an urban approach to the city took place, further threatened by the Weser flood .

The city of Minden with the cathedral freedom was then fortified by the city wall towards the end of the 12th century, thus initially reducing the risk of flooding on the saucer and thus in the immediate vicinity of the cathedral site. Nevertheless, in addition to a flood of 1020, floods from the years 1341, 1643, 1682, 1744 and 1798/99 are documented for the freedom of the cathedral. During the Magdalen flood of 1342, according to other sources on February 10, 1375, the Weser is said to have flowed into the cathedral.

The mounting against the Weser was after the acquisition of Minden Principality by Brandenburg-Prussia in 1648 and the subsequent expansion of the Prussian fortress town strengthened. A glacis was built between the cathedral and the Weser . After the fortress Minden was razed in 1873, the Weserglacis was redesigned into a green area. There, among other things, the New Government building was built for the Minden district government , which moved away from the old building of the former bishop's court, located directly next to the cathedral.

Immediately adjacent to the cathedral are two squares, the so-called cathedral courtyards. The small cathedral courtyard is located west of the westwork. It forms the forecourt to the main entrance of the cathedral and thus the spatial distance to the city. On the western side of the Kleiner Domhof is the old town hall and north of the new town hall from 1978 by Harald Deilmann . The square is closed to the south by the new Haus am Dom building from the 1970s. In it is the treasury of the cathedral. To the north of the cathedral is the largest inner-city square, the Große Domhof . With its eastern branch it connects to the choir of the cathedral. The now closed bishop's portal once provided access to the cathedral from the large cathedral courtyard. On the west side of the square is the old government of the Prussian administrative district of Minden . Its predecessor was the bishop's court . On the eastern side of the square are two restored curia houses . One of them now houses the Dompropstei . To the south of the cathedral is the cathedral monastery with the monastery courtyard (Kreuzhof). The associated cloister with east and south wings was built in 1140 and provides access to the Marienkapelle. The cloister is equipped with an altarpiece with a representation of the Last Supper . The design as a two-story cloister is unusual for Westphalia.

You can find more information about the Minden city center such as sights, history and much more in the main article Minden

Flood

The flood of the Weser flooded the Schlagde in 2010

Web links

Minden city center in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

↑ Population statistics of the city of Minden ( Memento from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed October 13, 2014.
^ ^A ^b Klaus Günter: The excavations on the cathedral courtyard in Minden 1974–1977 . In: Hans Nordsiek (Ed.): Between the cathedral and the town hall, contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Minden . Minden 1977, p. 25 .
↑ Birgit Meyer: The Wichgrafenvillication as a justification of the Wichgrafenamt in Minden. Messages of the Mindener Geschichtsverein, year 54 (1982), pp. 53–69.
^ Roland Pieper , Anna-Beatriz Chadour-Sampson: City of Minden . Part II: Old Town 1 & The Cathedral District. In: Fred Kaspar, Ulf-Dietrich Korn (Hrsg.): Architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . tape 50 . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-632-4 , chapter: Die Dom Freiheit, p. 1137 .
^ Klaus Günter: The excavations on the cathedral courtyard in Minden 1974–1977 . In: Hans Nordsiek (Ed.): Between the cathedral and the town hall, contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Minden . Minden 1977, p. 28 .
^ Klaus Günter: The excavations on the cathedral courtyard in Minden 1974–1977 . In: Hans Nordsiek (Ed.): Between the cathedral and the town hall, contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Minden . Minden 1977, p. 33 .
^ Wilhelm Schroeder: Chronicle of the diocese and the city of Minden . Leonardy, Minden 1886, p. 74, 250, 626, 640, 669 ( digitized from archive.org [accessed on September 21, 2010]).
↑ Jürgen Langenkämper: The flood in 1946 was not a deluge . MT series flood of the century 1946 (part 6). In: Mindener Tageblatt . No. 37 , February 13, 2006, p. 7 .
^ Heinz Voter: 75 destinations in the Minden-Lübbecker Land . 8th edition. JCC Bruns, Minden 2010, Chapter: Minden: The old cathedral freedom. , The old cathedral freedom (accompanying article in the Mindener Zeitung) / www.mt-online ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

[1] Population statistics of the city of Minden ( Memento from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed October 13, 2014.

[AUSGR_25-2] A ^b Klaus Günter: The excavations on the cathedral courtyard in Minden 1974–1977 . In: Hans Nordsiek (Ed.): Between the cathedral and the town hall, contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Minden . Minden 1977, p. 25 .

[3] Birgit Meyer: The Wichgrafenvillication as a justification of the Wichgrafenamt in Minden. Messages of the Mindener Geschichtsverein, year 54 (1982), pp. 53–69.

[BKW_1137-4] Roland Pieper , Anna-Beatriz Chadour-Sampson: City of Minden . Part II: Old Town 1 & The Cathedral District. In: Fred Kaspar, Ulf-Dietrich Korn (Hrsg.): Architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . tape 50 . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-632-4 , chapter: Die Dom Freiheit, p. 1137 .

[5] Klaus Günter: The excavations on the cathedral courtyard in Minden 1974–1977 . In: Hans Nordsiek (Ed.): Between the cathedral and the town hall, contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Minden . Minden 1977, p. 28 .

[6] Klaus Günter: The excavations on the cathedral courtyard in Minden 1974–1977 . In: Hans Nordsiek (Ed.): Between the cathedral and the town hall, contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Minden . Minden 1977, p. 33 .

[7] Wilhelm Schroeder: Chronicle of the diocese and the city of Minden . Leonardy, Minden 1886, p. 74, 250, 626, 640, 669 ( digitized from archive.org [accessed on September 21, 2010]).

[8] Jürgen Langenkämper: The flood in 1946 was not a deluge . MT series flood of the century 1946 (part 6). In: Mindener Tageblatt . No. 37 , February 13, 2006, p. 7 .

[TAGEBLATT-9] Heinz Voter: 75 destinations in the Minden-Lübbecker Land . 8th edition. JCC Bruns, Minden 2010, Chapter: Minden: The old cathedral freedom. , The old cathedral freedom (accompanying article in the Mindener Zeitung) / www.mt-online ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )