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Sit down City of Siegen Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 26 ″  N , 8 ° 1 ′ 59 ″  E
Height :	273  (270-340)  m
Area :	2.12 km²
Residents :	654  (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	308 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1966
Incorporated into:	Hut Valley
Postal code :	57078
Area code :	0271
Location of Niedersetzen in Siegen

Niedersetzen is a district of the city ​​of Siegen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

It lies in the north of Siegen and borders among other things on the districts of Geisweid in the southwest, Dillnhütten in the west and Obersetzen in the north. In the northwest, the place borders on the Kreuztal district of Buschhütten and in the east on Dreis-Tiefenbach , which belongs to Netphen.

Niedersetzen is located in the valley of the Setze, which rises north of Obersetzen and flows into the Ferndorf in Geisweid , as well as a side valley. The highest elevation around the place is the Blecherother Schlag with a height of 435.2  m in the northeast of Lowering . To the south of it lies the Dreisbacher Berg with a height of 425.7  m .

history

Niedersetzen was first mentioned in a document in 1418.

Until the municipal reorganization in 1966, the place belonged to the office of Netphen and on July 1, 1966 it became part of the new town of Hüttental . Since January 1st, 1975, Niedersetzen has been part of Siegen.

Population numbers

Population of the place:

year Residents 1818 134 1885 181 1895 209 1905 292 1910 350 1925 386

year Residents 1933 391 1939 418 1950 527 1961 599 1994 740 2004 704

year Residents 2006 698 2008 679 2009 669 2010 671 2011 654 2012 657

year Residents 2013 660 2014 648 2015 636 2016 654

Infrastructure

Niedersetzen is located on Kreisstraße 27, which leads from Geisweid over the village and further north over Obersetzen to Unglinghausen . District road 30 branches off in the village and leads over the southern height to Dreis-Tiefenbach. The village is connected to Hüttentalstrasse via Geisweid and to the 45 federal motorway via the Siegen exit . The next train station is in Geisweid.

Niedersetzen has a cemetery, a Protestant parish hall and the volunteer fire department . The kindergarten and the former Setzer primary school are located at the southern end of Obersetzen.

Personalities

• Lothar Irle (1905-1974); Local historian and writer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map of the Principality of Nassau-Siegen: Documentary evidence of settlement up to 1500 ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
2. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 266 .
3. ^ 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 .
4. ^ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen , Siegen 1968
5. ↑ siegen.de: main resident population by district (updated regularly)
6. ↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1887, pp. 110/111
7. ^ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1897, pp. 114/115
8. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
9. ↑ genealogy.net: Office Netphen
10. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Siegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
11. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 229 .
12. ↑ Hartmut Eichenauer: Siegen ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 12.2 MB) , approx. 1995