The Old Town
Historic City Center
· Siegen
The centre of Siegen was almost completely destroyed in a bombing raid on December 16th 1944 but the old town shows still today a nicestreets and houses.
Only a handful of slate-roofed, half-timbered buildings remained unscathed in a triangle between the Löhrstraße, Oberer Metzgerstraße and Hainstraße streets, where the butcher's and tanner's guilds of the middle ages had been established. Dating from the 18th century, these houses were lovingly and carefully restored in the 1980s and, as an enclosed ensemble, form a jewel box of urban architecture today. The half-timbered buildings, the slate roofs and facades and the cobblestones are typical characteristics. Pfarrer-Ochse- Square next to the Church of St. Mary (Marienkirche), where the annual Old Town Festival takes place every September, is particularly attractive.
The Old Town is part of the City Tour.

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GSS Siegen
Updated: August 29, 2018
Coordinates
DD
50.873596, 8.025371
DMS
50°52'24.9"N 8°01'31.3"E
UTM
32U 431425 5636220
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The Old Town
Hinter der Marienkirche 6-8
57072 Siegen
57072 Siegen
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City Walking
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1.9 km
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Der Siegener Stadtrungang führt vom Fuß der Stadtmauer am KölnTor hinauf auf den Siegberg und entlang der wichtigsten historischen Stätten der Stadt.
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