Bishopric of Minden
| Prince-Bishopric of Minden | ||||||||||
| Hochstift Minden | ||||||||||
| State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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.svg) Map of part of the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle in
1560, Prince-Bishopric of Minden highlighted in red |
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| Capital | Minden | |||||||||
| Languages | Northern Low Saxon | |||||||||
| Government | Principality | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Founded by Charlemagne | 803 | ||||||||
| • | Gained Reichsfreiheit | 1180 | ||||||||
| • | Possessed Hamelin | 1259–77 | ||||||||
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Peace of Westphalia: Secularised to Brandenburg-Prussia |
1648 | ||||||||
| • | Ceded to Westphalia | 1807–14 | ||||||||
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The Bishopric of Minden was a Roman Catholic diocese (German: Bistum Minden) and a state, Prince-bishopric of Minden (German: Hochstift Minden), of the Holy Roman Empire. Its capital was Minden which is in modern-day Germany.
The diocese was founded by Charlemagne in 803, after he had conquered the Saxons. It was subordinate to the Archbishopric-Electorate of Cologne. It became the Prince-Bishopric of Minden (German: Fürstbistum Minden) in 1180, when the Duchy of Saxony was dissolved. In the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation was starting to take hold in the state, under the influence of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Minden was occupied by Sweden in the Thirty Years' War, and was secularized. The Peace of Westphalia of 1648 gave it to the Margraviate of Brandenburg as the Principality of Minden (German: Fürstentum Minden).
Since 1719, Minden prince-bishopric was administered by Brandenburg-Prussia together with the adjacent County of Ravensberg as Minden-Ravensberg. In 1807, it became part of the Kingdom of Westphalia. In 1814, it returned to Prussia and became part of the Province of Westphalia.
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