Münden lies in the district of Göttingen at the confluence of the Fulda and Werra rivers, which join to form the Weser.

[3] 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.

Later the academy was merged into the University of Göttingen, moving to a new building on the main campus in 1970.

[5] Many tourists visit the city to see some 700 of its 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.