Siegen-Wittgenstein

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Siegen-Wittgenstein
Map of North Rhine-Westphalia highlighting the district Siegen-Wittgenstein
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
County seat	Siegen
Adm. region	Arnsberg
Area	1,131.47 km²
Population	295,787 (2001)
pop. density	261 inh./km²
Car identification	SI
Web page	http://www.siegen-wittgenstein.de

Siegen-Wittgenstein is a Kreis (district) in the southeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Olpe, Hochsauerland, Waldeck-Frankenberg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Lahn-Dill, Westerwaldkreis, Altenkirchen.

1 History
2 Geography
3 Coat of arms
4 Towns and municipalities
5 External links

[edit] History

In 1816/17 the two districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein were created as parts of the Prussian province of Westphalia. In 1974 the two districts were merged, and in 1984 the name Siegen-Wittgenstein was adopted.

[edit] Geography

Geographically it covers the hills southeast of the Sauerland hills, the Siegerland.

[edit] Coat of arms

The two upper sections show, to the right, the arms of the Dukes of Nassau, who founded Siegen, and to the left, those of the Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein. At the bottom a miner's lamp and a coppicing hook are depicted, in reference to the mining and charcoal-burning history of the district.

[edit] Towns and municipalities

Towns	Municipalities
Bad Berleburg Bad Laasphe Freudenberg Hilchenbach Kreuztal Netphen Siegen	Burbach Erndtebrück Neunkirchen (Siegerland) Wilnsdorf

[edit] External links

Official Webpage (German)
History and Genealogy for Wittgenstein

	Urban districts and Districts in the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)
Urban districts	Aachen \| Bergisch Gladbach \| Bielefeld \| Bochum \| Bonn \| Bottrop \| Dortmund \| Duisburg \| Düsseldorf \| Essen \| Gelsenkirchen \| Hagen \| Hamm \| Herne \| Köln (Cologne) \| Krefeld \| Leverkusen \| Mönchengladbach \| Mülheim \| Münster \| Oberhausen \| Remscheid \| Solingen \| Wuppertal
Districts	Aachen \| Borken \| Kleve (Cleves) \| Coesfeld \| Düren \| Ennepe-Ruhr \| Euskirchen \| Gütersloh \| Heinsberg \| Herford \| Hochsauerland \| Höxter \| Lippe \| Märkischer Kreis \| Mettmann \| Minden-Lübbecke \| Oberbergischer Kreis \| Olpe \| Paderborn \| Recklinghausen \| Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis \| Rhein-Erft-Kreis \| Rhein-Kreis Neuss \| Rhein-Sieg-Kreis \| Siegen-Wittgenstein \| Soest \| Steinfurt \| Unna \| Viersen \| Warendorf \| Wesel