Siegen-Wittgenstein district
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Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ' N , 8 ° 11' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Administrative region : | Arnsberg |
| Regional association : | Westphalia-Lippe |
| Administrative headquarters : | Wins |
| Area : | 1,132.89 km 2 |
| Residents: | 276,944 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 244 inhabitants per km 2 |
| License plate : | SI, BLB |
| Circle key : | 05 9 70 |
| NUTS : | DEA5A |
| Circle structure: | 11 municipalities |
| Address of the district administration: |
Koblenzer Strasse 73 57072 Siegen |
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| District Administrator : | Andreas Müller ( SPD ) |
| Location of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
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The district of Siegen-Wittgenstein is located in the southeast of North Rhine-Westphalia and is the southernmost in Westphalia . It belongs to the administrative district of Arnsberg and is a member of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe . The seat of the district is Siegen . The district was created on January 1, 1975 as the legal successor to the previously independent districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein .
geography
location
The district of Siegen-Wittgenstein is bounded in the north by the Rothaargebirge and in the south by the Westerwald . In the east, the district passes into the north Hessian area without natural borders. The main rivers are the Sieg in the west and the Lahn and Eder in the east . The entire district area belongs to the higher-level natural landscape of the Rhenish Slate Mountains . The most densely forested district in Germany, like the Sauerland to the northwest, is characterized by its low mountain range. 71 percent of the area consists of forest; this was determined during the forest inventory. A total of 80,000 hectares of forest are available in the district area; 57 percent of it is coniferous forest.
Center of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district
In the Rothaargebirge west of the Ederkopf ( 650 m ) on the upper reaches of the Eder near the source lies the geographical center of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district . The center of the circle next to a large oak tree is marked by a large stone cuboid. Its information board bears the following inscriptions, among other things: The center of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district. Found by the listeners of Radio Siegen on July 18, 2008 . About 1150 m southwest of this point, where the Rothaarsteig passes at a height of 592.9 m , is the former Hohenroth forester's house , which now serves as an inn and forest information center.
Circle structure
The district of Siegen-Wittgenstein is divided into eleven municipalities , including two medium-sized cities and Siegen as a large city .
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Other communities
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The municipality of Erndtebrück and the health resorts Bad Berleburg and Bad Laasphe belong to the Wittgensteiner Land and came from the Wittgenstein district , the other cities and municipalities are in the Siegerland and came from the Siegen district .
Neighboring areas
The district of Siegen-Wittgenstein borders, starting clockwise in the northwest, the district of Olpe and the Hochsauerlandkreis (both in North Rhine-Westphalia), the districts of Waldeck-Frankenberg , Marburg-Biedenkopf and Lahn-Dill-Kreis (all in Hesse ) as well as to the Westerwaldkreis and to the Altenkirchen (Westerwald) district (both in Rhineland-Palatinate ).
history
The district of Siegen-Wittgenstein was created on January 1st, 1975 due to the Sauerland / Paderborn law by combining the municipalities of Bad Berleburg, Burbach, Erndtebrück, Freudenberg, Hilchenbach, Kreuztal, Laasphe, Netphen, Neunkirchen, Siegen and Wilnsdorf. The legal predecessors, the districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein , were dissolved. The expressed dissatisfaction of the population in the Wittgensteiner Land with the original new and old district name Kreis Siegen, which was perceived as one-sided, led to its renaming to "Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein" on January 1, 1984.
The area of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district was already settled by a Celtic indigenous population before the birth of Christ . Already around 2500 years ago, due to its wealth in iron ore, an intensive mining and ironworking economy was practiced here. In the Celtic world of Western Europe, the Siegerland and its eastern neighbor were therefore very important at the time. A lot of wood was needed as fuel for the smelting. According to archaeological research, the overexploitation of the forests is said to have depopulated the area between 100 and around 800 AD.
It was not until the Franks repopulated what is now the district area at the time of Charlemagne . Since then, various counts from the Haiger / Dillenburg area (House of Orange-Nassau ) have ruled the western part . These were closely connected with the later ruling houses in Luxembourg and the Netherlands . Wilhelm the Silent gathered his armies on the Ginsburg near Hilchenbach to liberate the Netherlands from the Spaniards .
During the Middle Ages , the Siegerland belonged to the Archdiocese of Mainz and again gained great importance as a mountain district and in iron production. Iron ore mining continued until the 1960s. Steelworks that are over 150 years old, such as the Edelstahlwerke Südwestfalen (formerly Krupp Edelstahl, before that Stahlwerke Südwestfalen, before that Bremer Hütte) in Siegen-Geisweid are still in operation today, albeit with more specialized products.
Linguists consider the Siegerland dialect to be the northeasternmost part of Moselle Franconian . A cultural connection to Westphalia, to which the Siegerland belongs today, existed only partially. You can still see the fortifications between the Franconian and Saxon countries on the border between the Olpe and Siegen-Wittgenstein districts in the woods .
The intensive settlement of the eastern district area, i.e. the Wittgensteiner Land , began as a colonization movement from neighboring Hesse to the east around 900. First, the agriculturally favorable valleys were populated with individual farms or small farm groups; after that, most of the less favorable, i.e. H. usually higher settlements. In contrast to the Siegerland dialect, the Wittgenstein dialect belongs to the Upper Hessian language area.
The Wittgensteiner Land formed the County of Wittgenstein in the later Middle Ages from around 1238 and in the early modern period and as such was ultimately divided under the lines Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein . In 1806 the areas that had meanwhile been prince fell to Hessen-Darmstadt . During this time, the residents of the two areas had to pay the taxes unchanged to the old rulers and also pay the taxes of the new rule Hessen-Darmstadt , which led to an additional impoverishment of the already economically disadvantaged population.
Since the land was captured by Prussia , Siegerland and Wittgenstein belonged as two districts to the Koblenz administrative district of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine province . When Ludwig von Vincke reorganized the districts in 1817, they were assigned to the administrative district of Arnsberg in the province of Westphalia .
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1975 | 289.100 |
| 1980 | 286.206 |
| 1985 | 278.506 |
| 1990 | 288,922 |
| 1995 | 299,336 |
| 2000 | 296.256 |
| 2005 | 291,372 |
| 2010 | 282,681 |
| 2015 | 280,800 |
| 2017 | 277.977 |
politics
District council
After the local elections on May 25, 2014, the 54 seats in the district council are distributed as follows:
- CDU 20 seats
- SPD 19 seats
- FDP 3 seats
- Green 5 seats
- UWG 3 seats
- Left 2 seats
- AfD 2 seats; the two AfD MPs have been non-attached since the parliamentary group was dissolved on March 10, 2015.
Total: 54 seats
- District Administrator Andreas Müller (SPD)
District Administrator
District administrator is Andreas Müller ( SPD ). On June 15, 2014, he was able to prevail in the runoff election of the district administrator with almost 60% against the incumbent Paul Breuer ( CDU ).
Previous district administrators of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district:
- Hermann Schmidt (1964–1983), SPD, before 1975 district administrator of the legal predecessor in the Siegen district
- Hans-Jürgen Knieke (1983–1984), CDU
- Hilmar Selle (1984), SPD
- Walter Nienhagen (1984-1999), SPD
- Elmar Schneider (1999-2003), CDU
- Paul Breuer (2003-2014), CDU
Term of office and name of the senior district directors:
- Karlheinz Forster (1972–1999), SPD, before 1975 chief district director of the legal predecessor district of Siegen
Member of the state parliament
The following MPs represented or represent the district of Siegen or the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein since 1946 in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia or came from Siegen / Siegerland and represented other constituencies in North Rhine-Westphalia in the state parliament:
- Ernst Achenbach , (FDP), 1950–1958
- Ernst Bach , (CDU), 1958–1965
- Monika Brunert-Jetter , (CDU), 1995–2012
- Joseph Büttner , (CDU), 1947–1962
- Albert Falke , (CDU), 1962–1980
- Hedwig Finger , (CDU), 1946-1954
- Lotte Friese-Korn , (FDP), 1947–1954
- Anke Fuchs-Dreisbach , (CDU), since 2017
- Falk Heinrichs , (SPD), 2012–2017
- Alexander Hirschfeld , (National Rights / FDP), 1951–1958, 1961–1962
- Hans Hoof , (CDU), 1980–1990
- Jens Kamieth , (CDU), since 2012
- Volkmar Klein , (CDU), 1995-2009
- Karl Knipschild , (CDU), 1980–1995
- Edith Langner , (CDU), 1966–1975
- Loke Mernizka , (SPD), 1980-1996
- Bernhard Meuser , (CDU), 1946–1947
- Friedrich Middelhauve , (FDP), 1946–1958
- Georg-Wilhelm Mietz , (CDU), 1975–1980, 1983–1990
- Hans-Dieter Moritz , (SPD), 1985-2005
- Heinrich Otto , (KPD), 1946
- Gudrun Reinhardt , (CDU), 1990-2000
- Hans Reinhardt , (SPD), 1962–1975
- Johannes Remmel , (The Greens), since 1995
- Otto Rippel , (CDU), 1946–1950
- Hermann Schmidt (SPD), 1950–1961
- Helga Schwarz-Schumann , (SPD), 2000-2010
- Walter Seelbach , (CDU), 1950–1958
- Hilmar Selle , (SPD), 1976–1985
- Paul Steup , (CDU), 1946–1950
- Artur Sträter , (CDU), 1950–1958
- Hagen Tschoeltsch , (FDP), 1985-1995
- Hans-Georg Vitt , (SPD), 1962–1980
- Tanja Wagener , (SPD), 2012–2017
- Hermann Weber , (CDU), 1959–1965
coat of arms
The coat of arms is used for the Siegen-Wittgenstein district formed in 1975. The old district of Siegen and the district of Wittgenstein each have their own coat of arms.
Initially, the coat of arms of the old district of Siegen, analogous to the name of the new district, was used. After the name was changed to Siegen-Wittgenstein, the rear field was adapted to the colors of the old Wittgenstein district, so that the field was shown in silver (white) and the miner's lamp and the Haubergsknipp (= knife) in black.
On the coat of arms valid since October 1st, 1999, the Nassau lion is shown in the back field . The front field emerges from the coat of arms of the Wittgenstein district, which was added during the 1975 district reform . In the lower area there is a miner's lamp as a symbol for mining and a Knipp as a symbol for forestry, which also come from the coat of arms of the Siegen district.
Buildings and sights
Upper Castle to Siegen
The hilltop castle of the Upper Castle on the Siegberg was first mentioned in a document in 1259 and was the ancestral castle of the House of Nassau in the Middle Ages. The Siegerland Museum has been located here since 1905. Here you can find evidence from the region, including an (artificially created) show mine , as well as numerous paintings. The focus is on works by the city's most famous son, Peter Paul Rubens . There is also an extensive collection of portraits of the Nassau and Orange people. The top floor is dedicated to 19th century home decor. A kitchen from the Siegerland, a bedroom and numerous pieces of furniture from the Biedermeier period give an impression of life in the region.
Lower Castle to Siegen
At the end of the 17th century, the Lower Castle was built in its current shape , which is like an open rectangle. The evangelical line of the House of Nassau-Siegen resided there. The "Big Tower" with carillon also belongs to the castle . In 1959, the city of Siegen set up a memorial for victims of war and tyranny there. The crypt of the Protestant part of the Nassau Princely House is also located in the castle.
Up until the 2010s, the castle served as a state authority building in which the Siegen Labor Court, the North Rhine-Westphalia Construction and Real Estate Company , the Siegen State Environment Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Office and the Attendorn correctional facility - Siegen branch - were located. In the meantime, a large part of the property is already being used as the campus of the University of Siegen, and this use will increase further in the next few years after the necessary renovation work has been completed.
Ginsburg
The Ginsburg , situated high above Hilchenbach-Grund, was mentioned in 1255 as a Nassau border fortification. The castle gained historical importance in 1568 when Wilhelm I drafted plans for the liberation of the Netherlands at the castle and made the final preparations for the campaign there. The Ginsburger Heide was the gathering point of the third army group under Count Ludwig von Nassau , which made Ginsburg, and thus Hilchenbach, a starting point for the Dutch struggle for freedom. Today only the reconstructed keep of the castle is completely preserved, the rest of the complex as a preserved ruin.
Bad Berleburg Castle
Berleburg Castle was built in 1258 by Count Siegfried I and the monastery bailiff Adolf I von Grafschaft . The dual rule in Berleburg ended in 1332 when Widekind von Grafschaft renounced his rights to the city in favor of Siegfried II von Wittgenstein in 1322. After the latter died as the last of the Wittgenstein counts, his son-in-law Salentin von Sayn took over the inheritance. He founded the Sayn-Wittgenstein house .
In the years 1555 to 1557 the two-story north wing of the castle was extended. In 1585 the gatehouse was built . During the reign of Count Casimir, the three-storey central wing was built from 1731 to 1733 and was rebuilt again in 1902. From 1732 to 1739 the corps de logis of Berleburg Castle was built according to the plans of Julius Ludwig Rothweil . Friedrich von Thiersch added the flanking towers during a renovation in 1912 and changed the stairwell. The castle is still owned by the Sayn-Wittgenstein- Berleburg family.
Wittgenstein Castle
A castle was first mentioned in 1187 as "Widenkindigstein". With the construction of this castle, the House of Battenberg secured its influence in the Wittgensteiner Land on the upper Lahn. In 1238 the Battenberg family was divided into a Battenberg and a Wittgenstein line by the sons of Widekind I. The Wittgenstein Castle and the town of Laasphe came to Siegfried I , who was now called Count von Wittgenstein. When the male line of the Counts of Wittgenstein died out in 1359, the castle fell to the Sayn-Wittgenstein family . During the Thirty Years' War the castle was occupied and heavily damaged in 1634, but it was repaired. Until 1950 it served as the residence of the princes of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein . After the princes moved to Schwarzenau Castle , the dormitory of a boarding school was housed in the castle. During the 1960s this was converted into the Wittgenstein Castle Gymnasium .
The irregular three-wing complex of the castle extends over a length of about 125 meters. The facility was built in several construction phases and does not have a uniform architectural style. The building is predominantly from the Renaissance and Baroque periods .
Keppel monastery
The former Premonstratensian monastery Keppel near Hilchenbach-Allenbach is one of the most important baroque gems of the Siegerland: Particularly worth seeing are the Romanesque-Gothic collegiate church with its baroque interior, the new house , the convent hall and the small collegiate museum .
Keppel was donated by Friedrich vom Hain before 1239 and was under the protectorate of the Counts and Princely House of Nassau-Orange , later of the Prussian royal family . After the Reformation, in 1547, Keppel became an aristocratic women's monastery with a girls' school, later an upper lyceum and a seminary for teachers. Today Keppel Abbey is a grammar school with a conference and guest house and a small museum.
Breitenbach dam
Between the Hilchenbach-Dahlbruch and Hilchenbach-Allenbach there is the Breitenbach dam, which with its reservoir serves to supply the Siegerland with water. There are numerous opportunities for hiking here.
Martini Church
The Martinikirche in Netphen is a hall church from the 13th century. When it gets dark and at night, the Romanesque tower of the church is illuminated.
Obernautalsperre
The Obernautalsperre in Netphen -Brauersdorf is with 15 million m³ the largest drinking water dam in the Siegerland. An approximately 9.6 km long farm road, which leads completely around the dam, is ideal for hiking. It is dominated by the Old Castle ( 632.9 m above sea level ), a refuge and place of worship from the La Tène period from 500 BC. Every year on December 31st, a fun run is held there.
Hainchen moated castle
The rebuilt Hainchen moated castle is located in Netphen -Hainchen .
Bison wilderness
In Bad Berleburg there is a herd of wild bison, the bison wilderness , which has not existed in Germany for centuries. The species protection project is unique in Germany.
Culture
Every year at Whitsun, the “Culture! Office” of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district organizes the KulturPur culture festival on the Giller near Hilchenbach .
The Philharmonie Südwestfalen , located in Hilchenbach, has been giving concerts in the field of classical music for 50 years. At the turn of the year 2006/2007 the orchestra made a guest appearance in China. Nabil Shehata has been the chief conductor since the 2019/2020 season.
Last but not least, the dilldappen have also had a permanent place in the Siegen-Wittgenstein cultural landscape since 1982.
Infrastructure and economy
In the Future Atlas 2016 , the Siegen-Wittgenstein district was ranked 227 out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the regions with a “balanced risk-opportunity mix” for the future.
traffic
air traffic
The Siegerland Airport is located on the Lipper Höhe near Burbach . Worldwide connections are handled via the airports in Düsseldorf , Dortmund , Frankfurt and Cologne .
Rail and bus transport
The Siegen-Wittgenstein district is served by six railway lines:
- the Ruhr-Sieg-Express (RE 16) and
- the Ruhr-Sieg-Bahn (RB 91) operate.
- the Rothaarbahn (RB 93).
- the Oberen Lahntalbahn (RB 94 / RMV line 43 ).
- the double-track electrified Dill line on the
- the Main-Sieg-Express (RE 99) and
- the Sieg-Dill-Bahn (RB 95).
- the Hellertalbahn (RB 96).
- the double-track electrified victory line on the
- the Rhein-Sieg-Express (RE 9) and
- the Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn (RB 90) operate.
The tariff of Verkehrsgemeinschaft Westfalen-Süd (VGWS) applies to all local public transport (ÖPNV) and the NRW tariff applies to all tariff areas.
The district also operates as a transport company, u. a. with the Siegen-Wittgenstein district railway . In Siegen-Weidenau there is a siding to Netphen to serve several industrial companies. The line from Netphen on to Deuz and Werthenbach was completely shut down in 2004. In 2009, the rails and sleepers there were completely removed from the disused route.
The railway lines from Bad Berleburg to Frankenberg via Hatzfeld (Eder) as well as from Erndtebrück -Birkelbach to Kirchhundem in the north of the district and from Olpe to Betzdorf via Freudenberg in the west of the district were closed.
Streets
The district of Siegen-Wittgenstein is part of the federal highways
- A 45 ( E 40 / E 41 ) Dortmund - Aschaffenburg ( Sauerland line ) and
- A 4 ( E 40 ) Cologne - Kreuztal (transitioning to the HTS to Siegen - Niederschelden )
opened up.
The A 4 between the AS 28 Wenden and Kreuztal was rebuilt. At the level of the Kreuztal district of Krombach, it turns into Hüttentalstrasse ( B 54 / B 62 ). Eight viaducts and ten underpasses and overpasses were built on the twelve-kilometer section.
The controversial extension of the A 4 through the northern district area to the A 4 near Bad Hersfeld / Hessen has not been taken into account in the current federal traffic route plan, which has been in force since 2004, and has been removed from the planning. The reasons for this were to be seen in the political constellation at the federal level and in the two federal states involved, as well as in the costly financing of the trunk road project through large contiguous and protected landscape areas; 1999) and their summary assessment.
In their feasibility study, the experts pointed out the "extraordinary impairment of nature and landscape" that would arise with the further construction of the A 4 through the Rothaargebirge and neighboring Hesse, impairments that the experts - like a number of previous experts did - considered “unreasonable”. The still raised - and existing - demand of the political majority in the district council to include an alternative west / east trunk road planning - with almost the same dimensions - in the trunk road requirement planning was no longer taken into account when the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan was passed in July 2004.
Water supply
The water supply in Siegerland is guaranteed by the Siegen-Wittgenstein Water Association (WVS). This has a 306-kilometer-long transport pipeline network ready to distribute the drinking water. The diameter of the pipelines varies between 100 and 800 mm. In the district area, supported by 27 pumping stations, 24 elevated tanks with a total capacity of 54,000 m³ serve to maintain the water distribution in the region. One of these elevated tanks is, for example, the “Bürbacher Kopf” in Siegen. One of the pumping stations is the “Pützhorn” groundwater works on Eiserfelder Strasse. The latter was built in 1939 and 1940 and caused building costs of 250,000 Reichsmarks. The water supply system also includes the two dams Obernautalsperre and Breitenbachtalsperre as well as the treatment plant located in Dreis-Tiefenbach.
power supply
There are several wind farms in the district, such as the Hesselbach wind farm (Bad Laasphe) with an installed capacity of almost 31 MW, the Hilchenbach community wind farm (10 MW), the Kalteiche / Löhrsberg wind farm (Wilnsdorf, 7.5 MW) and the Weisenberg Nord wind farm ( Burbach) and the Osterholz wind farm (Bad Berleburg).
economy
The economy of the former district of Siegen is from the to the year 600 BC. Iron smelting and processing dating back to BC , while in the region of the former Wittgenstein district mainly forestry and spa operations are important. In the Siegerland there is also manufacturing and production, including u. a. Car trailer of an important manufacturer, as well as several breweries , including the Krombacher brewery .
Ambulance service
History of the ambulance service
At the beginning of the 1960s, a number of voluntary paramedics began to carry out patient transports. In the middle of this decade, ambulance drivers were hired for the first time, and a number of rescue stations were also established.
In the 1970s, some rescue stations were opened by the DRK Kreisverband Siegen-Wittgenstein e. V., today's service provider of the rescue service in the district area.
The Erndtebrück and Wahlbach rescue stations were established in the early 1980s. The other ambulance stations still in existence today were already in place at this point. The first paramedics were trained in 1981 and the control center at the Siegen fire brigade, which has existed since 1980, can now be reached via the emergency number 112 from all over the district. In 1982 the rescue helicopter Christoph 25 was stationed at the Siegener Jung-Stilling Hospital.
In 2005 a training center for emergency medicine was opened.
General
The service provider of the public rescue service in the district is the DRK Kreisverband Siegen-Wittgenstein eV and the Siegen fire brigade in the city of Siegen. There is an ambulance station in Kreuztal-Ferndorf, Netphen, Bad Berleburg, Wilnsdorf, Bad Laasphe, Freudenberg, Burbach-Wahlbach, Erndtebrück-Womelsdorf and Siegen-Weidenau. At all rescue stations, with the exception of the one in Erndtebrück, there is at least one ambulance (RTW) and an emergency doctor's vehicle (NEF). The NEF of the Siegen fire brigade is usually stationed at one of the Siegen hospitals.
Alerts are accepted across the district via the emergency number 112 and carried out digitally by the district control center in Siegen-Weidenau (call name: Control center Siegen-Wittgenstein).
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the Siegen district was assigned the SI distinguishing mark when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is still issued in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district to this day.
Until the 1990s, vehicles from the old Wittgenstein district received license plates with the letter pairs HA to HZ and LA to LZ and the numbers from 1 to 999.
Since November 13, 2012, the BLB (Bad Berleburg) distinguishing mark has also been available as part of the license plate liberalization . When it was introduced, 800 old license plates were still assigned from the former Wittgenstein district. More than 5,600 copies had been published by September 2014, and around 8,000 by December 2015. This corresponds to a share of 22% of around 36,000 vehicles registered in Wittgenstein. The trend is increasing.
See also
literature
- Dieter Pfau: Traces of time in Siegerland and Wittgenstein. Early and High Middle Ages 750–1250 , Bielefeld 2009.
- Rudolf Bergmann, Thomas Frank, Philipp R. Hömberg : The district of Siegen Wittgenstein (= guide to archaeological monuments in Germany. Vol. 25). Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1092-6 .
- Klaus Dietermann, Johanna Morgenstern-Wulff, Ruth Röcher: The Jewish cemeteries in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district (= Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Siegerland. Documentation. Vol. 8). Siegen 1991, DNB 920574610 .
- Hartmut Eichenauer, Alois Mayr , Klaus Temlitz: The district of Siegen-Wittgenstein (= cities and communities in Westphalia. Vol. 2). Ardey, Münster 1995, ISBN 3-87023-064-9 .
- Jochen Luckhardt , Michael Schmitt: Siegen-Wittgenstein district (= Westfalia Picta. Vol. 3). Westfalen, Bielefeld 1988, ISBN 3-88918-053-1 .
- Günther Wrede : Territorial history of the County of Wittgenstein (= Marburg studies on older history. I. series: Work on the historical atlas of Hesse and Nassau, vol. 3). Marburg / Lahn 1927.
- Albert Ludorff : The architectural and art monuments of the district of Siegen (= The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia. Vol. 12). Schöningh, Münster 1903.
- Albert Ludorff: The architectural and art monuments of the Wittgenstein district (= The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia. Vol. 13). Schöningh, Münster 1903, DNB 36117327X .
- Hartmut Laumann : Die Metallzeiten , in: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany , Vol. 25: Der Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein , Stuttgart 1993, pp. 49-64.
Web links
- Website of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district
- Description of the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein in the series Cities and Municipalities in Westphalia
- References to the Wittgenstein region can be found in the Wittgenstein bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ↑ Keeping additional added value in the region through energetic use of wood. District Administrator Paul Breuer: "Wittgenstein Industrial Park can distinguish itself as a" bio-energy park "". siegen-wittgenstein.de, archived from the original on November 3, 2014 ; Retrieved January 13, 2013 .
- ↑ 71 percent forest in Siegen-Wittgenstein. Inventory of tree and bark. siegener-zeitung.de, July 13, 2016, accessed on July 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 336 .
- ↑ Sonja Schäfer: How the Siegen-Wittgenstein District got its name. siwiarchiv.de. Archive blog in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, June 1, 2017, accessed on June 9, 2017 .
- ^ Dieter Pfau: Traces of time in Siegerland and Wittgenstein. Early and High Middle Ages (750–1250). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89534-861-7 .
- ^ State database North Rhine-Westphalia. landesdatenbank.nrw.de, accessed on December 11, 2015 .
- ^ "Scrolled back ...", Siegener Zeitung of January 29, 2011
- ^ AfD parliamentary group in the district council dissolves. Retrieved December 4, 2015 .
- ^ SPD sensation in Siegen-Wittgenstein. Andreas Müller new district administrator. Siegener Zeitung , June 15, 2014, accessed on June 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Timetable of the members of the state parliament. siegen-wittgenstein.de, archived from the original on December 14, 2013 ; accessed on December 11, 2015 .
- ↑ Lower Castle Campus. uni-siegen.de, accessed on October 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Lower Castle Siegen. Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetrieb NRW, accessed on October 5, 2016 .
- ↑ http://wittgenstein-berleburg.net/familie-schloss/schloss-berleburg/
- ^ Friedhelm Ackermann, Alfred Bruns: Castles, palaces and monasteries in the Sauerland. Strobel-Verlag, Arnsberg 1985, ISBN 978-3-87793-014-4 , p. 54.
- ↑ Zukunftsatlas 2016. Archived from the original ; accessed on March 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Water supply in the city of Siegen. Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1991, p. 57 ff, 66th edition, published by Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein e. V., publishing house for local literature
- ^ Siegen-Wittgenstein Water Association. (No longer available online.) Wvsw.de, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on December 11, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The Hilchenbach community wind farm. (No longer available online.) Rothaarwind.de, archived from the original on May 8, 2016 ; accessed on May 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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