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Siegen is a city in Germany, in the south Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a Große...

Siegen is a city in Germany, in the south Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a Große kreisangehörige Stadt (lit. "Big town belonging to a district", but meaning a town that exercises certain functions usually exercised by the district, without actually being a district-free city). It is in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein in Arnsberg region. The university town (12,500 students in the 2005-2006 winter semester) is the district seat, and it is ranked as a "higher centre" (in terms of Walter Christaller's Central Place Theory) in the South Westphalian urban agglomeration. In 1975, in the process of municipal reforms and amalgamations, Siegen's population exceeded the 100,000 mark. The city of Siegen lies in a branched basin of the upper Sieg. From this basin, side valleys branch off in many directions. The heights of the surrounding mountains, wherever they are not actually settled, are covered in coppice. To the north lies the Sauerland, to the northwest the Rothaargebirge and to the southwest the Westerwald. The nearest cities to Siegen, going by average travelling distance, are Hagen to the north (83 km), Frankfurt am Main to the southeast (125 km), Koblenz to