Hann. Münden Explained

Type:Stadt
Image Coa:Wappen Hann Münden.png
Coordinates:51.4167°N 48°W
Image Plan:Hann. Münden in GÖ-2016.svg
State:Lower Saxony
District:Göttingen
Elevation:123
Area:121.12
Postal Code:34346
Area Code:05541
Licence:GÖ, DUD, HMÜ
Gemeindeschlüssel:03159017
Divisions:11
Website:www.hann.muenden.de
Mayor:Tobias Dannenberg[1]
Leader Term:2021 - 26
Party:CDU

Hann. Münden (short for Hannoversch Münden) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. Münden lies in the district of Göttingen at the confluence of the Fulda and Werra rivers, which join to form the Weser. It has about 24,000 inhabitants (2013). It is famous for its half-timbered houses, some of them more than 600 years old. There are 10 million cobblestones around the town.

History

The place is first mentioned in the deeds of donation of Gimundi to the abbey of Fulda, in 802. The town's name means "confluence" in old German; the prefix Hannoversch, or "Hanoverian", was added in the 19th century to help distinguish the town from its similarly-named Prussian neighbour, Minden.

City rights might have been granted during the latter half of the 12th century.[2]

The French inventor Denis Papin built a steam-pump-powered paddlewheel boat, probably pedal-driven in 1704, and as a demonstration used it to navigate down the Fulda River from Kassel to Münden in 1707.[3]

Hann. Münden was the site of the Royal Prussian Academy of Forestry: the city's botanical gardens with many different trees were primarily established for this academy. Later the academy was merged into the University of Göttingen, moving to a new building on the main campus in 1970.[4]

Main sights

Many tourists visit the city to see its some 700 well-preserved half-timbered medieval houses.

The large Lutheran church of St Blasius (14th–15th centuries), in Gothic style, contains the sarcophagus of Duke Eric I of Brunswick-Calenberg (d. 1540).[2]

Other sights include:

Notable people

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany. Hann. Münden is twinned with:[6]

See also

References

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stichwahlen zu Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 26. September 2021. 13 October 2021. Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.
  2. Münden. 19. 4. 1.
  3. [Steamboat]
  4. http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/introduction/68355.html Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, "Introduction"
  5. Grotefend, Georg Friedrich . 12 . 620-621 . 1.
  6. Web site: Städtepartner- & Städtefreundschaften. Hann. Münden. de. 2021-12-09.