Win - Siegen

Wins is a big city in Siegerland and the "most wooded" city in Germany.

Districts

• Birlenbach
• Breitenbach
• Book
• Bürbach
• Dillnhütten
• Eiserfeld
• Iron
• Feuersbach
• Geisweid
• Gosenbach
• Kaan-Marienborn
• Langenholdinghausen
• Meiswinkel
• Niederschelden
• Sit down
• Oberschelden
• Put on
• Seelbach
• Wins
• Sohlbach
• Trupbach
• Volnsberg
• Weidenau

background

"What's worse than losing? Win!"

The industrial city of Siegen in South Westphalia was almost completely destroyed in the Second World War and then rebuilt in the style of the 1950s. Some of the worst building sins have been corrected in the meantime (such as the overbuilding of the Sieg in the city area with a large parking lot), others have remained, including the city motorway that leads over the heads of the residents on stilts. Siegen is therefore not known for its sights, but above all for its shopping opportunities, the city center, which is dominated by students, and its location in the narrow, deeply cut valleys of the Siegerland.

getting there

By plane

• The Siegerland Airport at Burbach (Siegerland) is a small airfield with no scheduled flights. Among other things, charter flights for up to 70 people and cargo flights are offered. The airfield is also approved for night flights.
• The next major airports are in Frankfurt am Main (2 1/4 hours by train about to water and Frankfurt Hbf) and Cologne (1½ hours about Siegburg).

By train

• There are direct connections with the DB Regio out Aachen above Cologne through the RE 9 (Rhein-Sieg-Express), Au (victory) (End point of the S-Bahn lines S 12 and S 19 from Düren / Horrem to Au (Sieg)), with the RE 99 to to water above Herborn, Wetzlar and Dillenburg, with the RB 93 to Bad Berleburg as well as with the RE 16 out eat above Bochum, with the RB 91 out Hagen and with the Hessische Landesbahn, Dreiländerbahn from the direction of Westerburg and Altenkirchen through the RB 90. The journey time from Cologne / Bonn is 1 1/2 hours. To Frankfurt am Main there are individual direct connections, with changing over to water you are faster in Frankfurt main station (1 3/4 hours).
• Between victories and Kreuztal there are connections through the lines RE 16, RB 91 and RB 93.
• The closest IC stop is to water

By car

In Wins were Environmental zones set up in accordance with the fine dust ordinance. Without a corresponding sticker, you risk a fine of € 80 when entering an environmental zone. This also applies to foreign road users. Entry ban for vehicles in pollutant groups 1 2 3 (Info Federal Environment Agency)

Via the A4 from Cologne, via the A45 north from the Ruhr area and south from Frankfurt am Main.

mobility

There is an expressway, the Hüttentalstraße (HTS) or B 54n, which (currently) from "Siegen-Dreisbach, Europaplatz" to the Krombacher Höhe (near Kreuztal) and further over a relatively new section of the A4 to the motorway junction "Olpe-Süd" leads.

Bus routes run through the entire city area, to a lesser extent also as night bus routes.

Tourist Attractions

• Upper Castle with Siegerland Museum and Castle Park, Burgstrasse, 57072 Siegen, Museum opening times: Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday: closed
• Lower castle with princely crypt
• Old town - small but nice
• Reinhold Forster Erbstollen in Eiserfeld, Siegtalstraße, opening times: every 1st Sunday from April to October from 2pm to 3.30pm
• Nikolaikirche - Siegen's landmark the "little crown"
• Martini Church
• Marienkirche
• gasometer
• Germany's steepest shopping street, Kölner Strasse
• 50.87398.022431  Museum of Contemporary Art, Lower Castle 1, 57072 Siegen. .Open: Tue to Sun 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thu 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed on Mondays. Open on public holidays.last change: not specified
• Active Museum South Westphalia Obergraben 10, 57072 Siegen, opening times: Tuesday and Sunday 3 p.m. - 6 p.m., as well as by appointment
• 50.875668.014822  South Westphalian Railway Museum, At the underpass 22, 57072 Siegen (opposite Siegen Hbf, directly accessible via a pedestrian bridge). Tel.: 49 (0)271 313 62 09, 49 (0)1516 744 53 52, Fax: 49 (0)271 313 63 72, Email: [email protected]..The museum in the old roundhouse of the former BW Siegen with the large turntable houses a photo exhibition on railway operations, a model railway layout and the archive of the Eisenbahnfreunde Betzdorf, which are housed in old administration buildings, an extensive vehicle exhibition showing more than ten locomotives (including ready-to-use DR class 52.80 and DB class V 100) as well as numerous freight and passenger cars.last change: Aug. 2020

activities

hike

There are 3500 km of marked hiking trails in the Siegerland.

• Rothaargebirge Nature Park
• Rothaarsteig

By bicycle

• SiegtalPur car-free cycling
• Bike tours in the Siegerland

Culture

• Pure Culture every year at Pentecost on the Giller.

shop

kitchen

• Pearl of Asia, Hagener Strasse 139, Tel .: 0271-3032550
• Louisiana Siegen, Bahnhofstr. 32, Tel .: 0271-2319354
• Restaurant Bambusgarten - Vietnam-, Chinese-, Thai-Restaurant, Hauptmarkt 1, Tel: 0271/43385 (card4students 10% on everything, show the card when ordering)

nightlife

• Media and culture house Lÿz

• 50.887038.026321  Belle Epoque music bar, In the Hüttenwiese 24, 57072 Siegen. Tel.: (0)271 43082. Open: Tuesday to Sunday 7:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.last change: not specified

accommodation

Learn

University of Siegen

Work

security

health

Practical advice

trips

• Panorama wildlife park at Kirchhundem
• Fort fun at Bestwig waterfall amusement park
• Biggesee at Olpe Hiking, swimming, sailing
• Atta cave at Attendorn Stalactite cave
• Krottorf Castle at Morsbach
• Winterberg Hiking and skiing region
• Uckersdorf Bird Park at Herborn
• Greifenstein Castle in Greifenstein Bell Museum
• Basalt and wildlife park in Bad Marienberg

literature

Web links

http://www.siegen.de - Siegen official website