Editing Minden (section)

===Public services and establishments===
[[File:MindenGericht2.jpg|thumb|Entrance to the Centre of justice]]
The administration offices of the district of [[Minden-Lübbecke]] are in the {{lang|de|Kreishaus}} (district building) near to the water affairs section of [[Detmold (region)|Detmold]], its town presence.

The ''Minden Holding'', a company in hands of the towns of Minden and [[Hamelin|Hameln]], manages the supply with gas, electricity, and water with its subsidiary firms ''Mindener Stadtwerke''<ref>{{cite web |title=Mindener Stadtwerke – Gesellschafter |url=https://www.mindener-stadtwerke.de/ueber-uns/strukturen/ |access-date=18 December 2022}}</ref> and ''Mindener Wasser''; the waste disposal is done by the ''Städtische Betriebe Minden'' ([[Municipal corporations#Municipal corporations as enterprises|municipal enterprises]]).<ref>{{cite web |title=SBM – Städtische Betriebe Minden |url=https://www.minden.de/buergerservice/abteilungen/NRW:department:2434/staedtische-betriebe-minden-sbm/ |access-date=18 December 2022}}</ref>
The 864 bed hospital ''[[Johann Vesling|Johannes-Wesling-Klinikum]]'' is one of four sites of the "Mühlenkreiskliniken" hospital-complex serving the district of Minden-Lübbecke. The new hospital building was completed in 2008 and is located in the southern town-quarter of Minden-Häverstädt.<ref>{{cite web |title=Johannes Wesling Klinikum |url=https://www.muehlenkreiskliniken.de/muehlenkreiskliniken/ueber-die-mkk |website=www.muehlenkreiskliniken.de |access-date=25 January 2022}}</ref>

Minden's Centre of Justice houses seven discrete [[Administrative court]]s for North Rhine-Westphalia with competence for the whole [[Detmold (region)|administrative region of Detmold]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Verwaltungsgericht Minden |url=https://www.vg-minden.nrw.de/behoerde/gerichtsvorstellung/index.php |website=www.vg-minden.nrw.de |access-date=25 January 2022}}</ref> the [[Labor court|Labour court]] ({{lang|de|Arbeitsgericht}}) for controversies in employee-employer relationship in the district Minden-Lübbecke,<ref>{{cite web |title=Arbeitsgericht Minden |url=https://www.arbg-minden.nrw.de/index.php |website=www.arbg-minden.nrw.de |access-date=25 January 2022}}</ref> and one of the three [[Amtsgericht|Local court]]s ({{lang|de|Amtsgericht}}) for criminal and civil cases in the district of Minden-Lübbecke.<ref>{{cite web |title=Amtsgericht Minden |url=https://www.ag-minden.nrw.de/index.php |website=www.ag-minden.nrw.de |access-date=25 January 2022}}</ref>

Minden is base of a German-British [[9th Panzerlehr Brigade (Bundeswehr)#Current organization|pioneer battalion]] (''Deutsch/Britisches Pionierbrückenbataillon 130'') in the {{lang|de|Herzog-von-Braunschweig-Kaserne}} (Duke of Brunswick barracks) at the western town frontier.