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Siegen (German pronunciation: [ˈziːɡn̩] ⓘ) is a city in Germany, in the south Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein in the Arnsberg region.
- Oberes Schloss
- Siegerlandmuseum
- Schlosspark Siegen
- Schlossplatz Unteres Schloss
- Museum für Gegenwartskunst
- Nikolaikirche
- Altstadt
- Aktives Museum Südwestfalen
- Reinhold Forster Erbstollen
- Alter Flecken, Freudenberg
On the 307-metre Sieberg hill is a palace dating to 1259. The Oberes Schloss began as a fortification, joint owned by the Counts of Nassau and Archbishops of Cologne. Later in the 1400s the Counts of Nassau became the sole lords of the castle and the city, and the property became a little more refined following a fire in the early 16th century. The...
In the Oberes Schloss is a museum for the art and history of the Siegerland region. There’s no question what the big draw is here: The Rubens-Saal has 10 ten large paintings by the Old Master Peter Paul Rubens, who was born in Siegen in 1577. In this collection is a version of The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, painted in 1618. There are also ...
Outside, the old palace gardens are now a 2.3-hectare park. The Schlosspark was opened to the public in 1888 when the castle was acquired from the Prussia Empire. The park is partly walled by Siegberg’s historic fortifications, and you can climb bastions and ramparts for views of the city and the Hüttental beyond . There are many tall, mature trees...
The history of the Nassau-Siegen house is complicated because in 1623 it divided into a Catholic and a Protestant line. The Protestants took up residence in a former monastery down in the city centre, some way west of the Oberes Schloss. The distinguishing feature of the Unteres Schloss is the Dicke Turm (roughly, fat tower), which went up in 1721 ...
On the south side of Schlossplatz, in a former telegraph building and its modern extension is Siegen’s museum for contemporary art. The museum exhibits the Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, which assembles all the winners of the Siegen’s Rubens Prize. This pan-European prize has been given out every five years since 1957, and has been awarded to Cy ...
At the highest point of the Siegberg, in Siegen’s medieval core stands the Nikolaikirche, raised in the first half of the 13th century. The church’s 50-metre tower is impossible to miss for its red and white paint scheme. At the top of the tower is the Krönchen, a shining symbol for Siegen. This is a replica for the two-metre, gilded wrought iron c...
As a mining and smelting city, Siegen was a target for allied bombing raids in the Second World War and was almost completely levelled in one attack on 16 December 1944. But just below the town hall a cluster of old houses from the 1700s were undamaged. Some have slate cladding, while others are half-timbered. You can find them on Oberer Metzgerstr...
One street south of the Schlossplatz is a museum about National Socialism in south Westphalia at a historically charged location. The Aktives Museum opened in 1996 in a bunker constructed 1941. This structure is on the site of Siegen’s synagogue, which was burnt down during Kristallnacht in 1938. So there’s an emphasis on Jewish history at the muse...
In the Eiserfeld district is a half-kilometre mining tunnel open to guided tours during the summer. The Reinhold Forster Erbstollen is an adit, a horizontal gallery accessing the Eisenzecher Zug ore composite mine. Dating back to the 15th century and operating until 1960, this was a huge operation, with more than 20 interconnected pits. At the entr...
Within 15 kilometres west of Siegen is one of south Westphalia’s most treasured scenes. The Alter Flecken is the town of Freudenberg’s unblemished historic core, composed of almost identical gabled half-timbered buildings. All these houses date from around the same period, in the 16th and 17th century. That’s because a fire destroyed Freudenberg’s ...
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Aug 31, 2024 · Siegen, city, North Rhine–Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies on the Sieg River, south of Arnsberg. The first mention of Siegen was in the late 11th century, and the town was incorporated in 1224. Its two castles were formerly seats of two branches of the house of Nassau-Siegen.
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Aug 1, 2024 · The city of Siegen has 100,000 inhabitants and is located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the border triangle to the neighboring federal states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. The city is located in the middle of a green hilly landscape in an extensive valley basin.
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Discover Siegen: one day in the Krönchen city Siegen is full of attractive spots, many of which are within the city centre area and easily reached on foot from the main station. The steepest pedestrianised zone in Germany…
