Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word SIEGERLAND

Definitions of SIEGERLAND

1. A region of Germany comprising Siegen and the upper part of Altenkirchen

Examples of Using SIEGERLAND in a Sentence

• From here the river runs southwestwards to the city of Siegen and the hills of Siegerland, both named after the river.
• By the end of the Middle Ages people in the Siegerland fenced off their territory with a combination of trenches, earthworks and dense hedgerows.
• In 1874 the Volmetal-Bahn railway line opened between Hagen and Brügge in Lüdenscheid, which considerably sped up transport of the raw materials needed by industry, wood and iron ore (from the Siegerland) into the Ruhr and to the small ironworking shops in the valleys near the Volme.
• It is regarded as the oldest galleried church on the Rhine and was the model for the churches of the so-called Lahn Group, which included the parish churches of Moselweiß and Güls (both villages are now boroughs of Koblenz), Ems, Dietkirchen, and Morsbach in the Siegerland.
• Unaffected by this division of rule, however, Nassau retained its sovereign rights in Siegerland (the region surrounding Siegen), where the important High Jurisdiction (hohe Gerichtsbarkeit) and Hunting Ban (Wildbann) explicitly survived to 1259.
• It was attended by groups of the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime – Federation of Antifascists (VVN-BdA) and the DKP from the Siegerland.
• This medieval street, which connected important trade fair sites, carried a large proportion of east-west trade, especially grain, textile products from Flemish and Lower German textile centres, woad from Thuringia, eastern European furs (the trading centre of which was Leipzig) as well as ironware from the northwestern Lahn-Dill region (Dietzhölzetal), the Siegerland, the Thuringian Forest.

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