5 Sights in Siegburg, Germany (with Map and Images)
Explore interesting sights in Siegburg, Germany. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 5 sights are available in Siegburg, Germany.
List of cities in Germany Sightseeing Tours in Siegburg1. Stadtmuseum Siegburg
The Stadtmuseum Siegburg is an archaeological, art and cultural history museum on the history of Siegburg. It was opened in May 1990 in the former Latin school on the market, the birthplace of the composer Engelbert Humperdinck. On four exhibition levels, the museum documents the city's history from early times to the present day. In addition to archaeology, fossils and Siegburg Renaissance ceramics, exhibitions of contemporary artists are shown. Together with two event rooms for 199 visitors each, the Stadtmuseum Siegburg is a cultural centre in the Rhein-Sieg district on the right bank of the Rhine. Since 2014, it has been connected by a passageway to the Siegburg City Library to form an open cultural centre.
2. Sankt Servatius
The Catholic parish church of St. Servatius is a listed church building in Siegburg. The choir building is an early example of a reception of the highly Gothic architecture of the Cologne Cathedral and in turn was adopted in successors such as the collegiate church of Vilich and the approximately simultaneous Mönchengladbacher Münster. The church is richly equipped and contains important medieval works of art in the treasury. It belongs to the municipality of St. Servatius Siegburg in the Archdiocese of Cologne.
3. Klosterkirche Sankt Antonius
Seligenthal Abbey was founded in 1231 as a Franciscan monastery by Count Heinrich von Sayn and his wife Mechthild von Landsberg in Seligenthal, today a district of Siegburg. The monastery church was built in the Rhenish transitional style. In 1803 the monastery of the Minorites was dissolved in the course of secularization. Since 2019, hermits of "Our Lady of Mount Carmel" have settled.
4. Michaelsberg
The Michaelsberg, colloquially called Michelsberg, is a 118.46 m above sea level. NHN High survey in Siegburg in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, which upheld about 55 m above the city. With his former Michaelsberg abbey on the summit region, it is the symbol of the city.
5. Siegessäule
The victory pillar in Siegburg is the war memorial for the soldiers from Siegburg and the Siegkreis fell in the German unification wars in 1866 and 1870/71. The winged Victoria on a ball holds the symbols of victory (laurel wreath) and peace (palm branch) in the hands.
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