Hanseatic city of Minden

Minden

About 84,000 inhabitants make Minden the cultural hub as well as the administrative and economic centre of the district of Minden- Lübbecke. Surrounded by the ranges of the Wiehen and Weser Mountains, woodlands, meadows and moors, the town of Minden, which is more than 1200 years old, is located in the region of Eastern Westphalia. Minden is part of the Federal Land of Northrhine-Westphalia, which is the land with the highest population within the Federal Republic of Germany. Minden is an important economic, service and business centre for a surrounding area of 450,000 inhabitants. Situated in the immediate vicinity of the three-lane motorway A2, the Cologne-Berlin railway line with a train station servicing both IC and ICE trains, the town profits from an optimum connection on land and on waterways.