A festive atmosphere, great gift ideas, a varied stage programme, fragrant mulled wine, delicious specialities and skating fun on the ice rink: Siegen's Christmas markets once… MORE

10 years of Open Sky Festival - this has been celebrated on the 14th of June 2025! With a large sunbathing lawn, cocktail bar and cosy lounges and house, techno, tech house and… MORE

Funk, jazz and electro, all live and garnished with a string quartet or other surprising musical interludes. All this under the open sky in an open space in the middle of nature,… MORE

‘Siegen, Du bist das Krönchen für mich’ This is the title of the anniversary song composed by nationally and internationally renowned composer and music producer Dieter Falk to… MORE

Until now, the main campus of the University of Siegen has perched on a 500-metre hill in the district of Weidenau; some refer to it as ‘education hill’, others call it the ‘ivory… MORE

Siegen is full of attractive spots, many of which are within the city centre area and easily reached on foot from the main station. The steepest pedestrianised zone in Germany… MORE

Typifying the Oberstadt, these heritage-protected structures – which only just survived two World Wars – form part of a sandstone facade artfully fashioned in the reform style… MORE

Two hearts beat in the breast of Siegen: the historic heart of the Oberstadt on the Siegberg, and the more youthful shopping and commercial heart of the Unterstadt in the Siegtal… MORE

… three words that sum up the charms of Siegen. In a city surrounded by countryside with a river running through it, flowering riverbanks in the heart of town exude a very special… MORE

How did Siegen’s Herrengarten get its name? Given the almost total absence of any sign of a garden, many people have surely asked themselves that very question over the years. What… MORE

The Upper Castle, or Oberes Schloss, stands atop the 307-metre Siegberg. How long it has stood there is uncertain; texts from the Middle Ages point to the presence of a castle… MORE