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, Minden 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). Despite the whole principality became a protestant region, the cathedral remeined Catholic, and the Cathedral chapter consisted of Catholic and Protestant members unitl it was abolished in 1810. Today the church belongs to the archdiocese of Paderborn.
MindenCathedral, dedicated to Saints Gorgonius and Peter, is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. From the...
Minden (German: [ˈmɪndn] ) is a middle-sized town in the very north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the largest town in population between Bielefeld...
"Heiliger Thietmar von Minden". Kirchensite.de. Retrieved March 17, 2011. Media related to Sculpture of Thietmar of Minden at MindenCathedral at Wikimedia Commons...
the monastery of Gorze in Lorraine. Some of the relics were translated to Minden. Many French churches obtained portions of the saint's body from Gorze,...
closer to its earlier state based on the model of the westwork of MindenCathedral, which had also been severely damaged by wartime bombing. In addition...
purpose of calling the community to prayer. Installed in clock towers in cathedrals, monasteries and town squares so they could be heard at long distances...
Bernward's time, but on the westwork of MindenCathedral and the alleged appearance of Hildesheim cathedral's westwork under Bishop Hezilo (1054–61)....
Palace in the Maya city of Uxmal. 910 – Souillac Abbey founded. 913 – MindenCathedral founded. 925 – Brahma Temple is built in Khajuraho, Chandela kingdom...
seated at Minden, and until 1397 the holders of the Vogtei rights over the bishopric of Minden. He was precentor and then dean in MindenCathedral. He became...
castle, in a dispute with his landlord, Bishop Wulbrand, and the cathedral chapter of Minden, because he had enfeoffed the Reineberg without permission to...
15th century and later. There are examples on the portals of the cathedrals at Minden, Bamberg and Freiburg Minster in Germany, as well as Notre Dame de...
ISBN 978-3-8391-9479-9. Iohannes (canon at Bremen Cathedral, son of Gottschalk I, Lord of Diepholz), Wilhelmus (canon at MindenCathedral, son of William I, Lord of Diepholz)...
Bach's complete organ works. At the end of 2001, he moved to the MindenCathedral as cathedral organist and choir director. In 2001, he also held a lectureship...
city of Cologne. It was owned by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company and named after the Cologne Cathedral, which is located on the same longitudinal axis...
Waldeck (1491 – 15 July 1553) was Prince-Bishop of Münster, Osnabrück, and Minden in the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire. He suppressed...
anniversary of the birth of The Old Pretender in 1688. At the Battle of Minden in Prussia on 1 August 1759, Yorkshiremen of the 51st Regiment (predecessor...
second son of Ernst Idel Jobst von Vincke (1738–1813), the dean of the MindenCathedral chapter, and his wife Luise Sophie von Buttlar (1739–1806). He grew...
a harpsichord is a sculpture (see below) in an altarpiece of 1425 from Minden in north-west Germany." Whoever invented the harpsichord did not have to...
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