Overview

The city of Siegen, Germany is one of the ancestral lands of the princes of Nassau-Orange. A person new to Seigen will immediately notice the uneven rows of quaint white buildings with dark roof tiles, against a backdrop of a magnificent mountain range and an endless blue sky. It is the perfect representation of a city town, combining the eccentricities and old fashioned customs and appearance of a town with the modern facilities and population of a city. It became a city in 1975, during the process of municipal reforms when the then-town Siegen's population went over the 100,000 mark.

A lot of people still see Siegen as a town due to it's charming provincial look, despite the technological progress it has made. The city of Siegen is called a Große kreisangehörige Stadt, which directly translates into a big town that belongs to a district, though the meaning is slightly different. It is a town that performs specific functions that are typically exercised by the district it belongs to, without having to be a district-free city.

Siegen is home to one of Germany's highest bridges, called the Siegtalbrücke, measuring to nearly 96 meters high and 1.050 kilometers long.

Siegen is home to the tallest bridge of the A45 and one of the highest in Germany. Built from 1964 to 1969, it is approximately 96m high and 1,050m long. This is a testament to the predominant industry in the city, which is metal working and mining.