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Apollo Theater

is an example without theater ensemble that lists each season, two to three productions.The house features a mix of drama, concerts and musical theater.Superintendent's Magnus Reitschuster.The new building replaces the dilapidated and inadequate technical stage of the city wins at the Spandauer Strasse.The city wins, the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein and the Land North Rhine-Westphalia invested supported by commercial and private donors, approximately 17 million €.On every Saturday between May and August 2007 over 6,000 people visited the new theater building to visit the house. In this free public tours of the Apollo was the orchestra pit to the gridiron , the Z-bridge to the light directed to the public. Every first Monday of the month will continue to be offered free theater tours.

Upper Castle

The castle is situated on the upper 307 m high mountain victory in the town of Siegen.The system is based on a medieval hilltop castle back in the early communal ownership of Archbishops of Cologne and the Count of Nassau was Later she went over all property in Nassau.Partially rebuilt it served temporarily as a residence.Today, the site has the Siegerlandmuseum.Currently, the museum has about 1,500 square feet of exhibition space.The exhibition rooms facilities such as a portrait of the most important collections in the houses of Orange and Nassau.In the Rubens Room nine original paintings by the Baroque painter is Peter Paul Rubens on permanent display, including a version of his famous work The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus.Among the most important rooms of the museum also includes the Gothic hall of the 14th Century with an original floor tiling obtained from greywacke stone in a herringbone pattern.Other rooms are famous people from the winning country devoted, including the doctor and writer Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling and the family of musicians brothers Busch.Under the castle was in 1938 set up in 14 meters depth that show mine, which at about 150 meter tunnel length original equipment and apparatus displays a winning countries ore mine has opened the mine on the 8th July 1938 at Westfalentag in victories.

Siegerland exhibition

The winner of Country Show (formerly Country show winner), short-SILA is a regional exhibition in Siegen.It is the largest Sudwestfalische Home Exhibition.The winning country emerged in 1996 out exhibition of the winning country show, which was previously targeted 18 times.It takes place every two years on the grounds of the Siegerlandhalle place.Represented numerous companies in the country winners, the district of Olpe, which Wittgenstein district and surrounding areas.Originally, the date of the exhibition in 2004 was around the Easter period. After objections from church leaders took the issue in the years before the end of August.The current number of visitors is about 50000-55000.The exhibition area was reduced in 2006 from 12,000 m2 to 10,000 m2.The 24th Edition of the exhibition in April 2006 visited only about 30,000.Approximately 200 exhibitors were represented, the region was about 70% of Alan.2008 the event only take four instead of nine days.In addition to the presentations of companies, many other performances such as motorcycle stunts and dance presentations are 2006 presented.

Rubens hard festival

The Rubens is a solid folk festival in the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Siegen in memory of the locally born painter Peter Paul Rubens.It is regularly aligned in the summer by the Society for Marketing City of Siegen.For the first time the festival has been organized in 1992 and found 1997-2005 Siegen regularly every two years in the Upper Town, especially around instead of the Upper Castle.The program consists of Rubens festival of music, dance, acrobatics and open-air theater.Is also a medieval market held.In 2005 against the historical backdrop of the Upper Castle a widely acclaimed musical by William of Orange - The Prince of Dillenburg listed.Unlike other popular festivals is to attract a more sophisticated audience, largely dispensed beer and stalls.Due to lack of sponsors the festival for the sixth Rubens and so far last time in 2005 was organized.

Active Museum Sudwestfalen

On the occasion of the commemoration for the 9th November 1992 showed a small exhibition at the former air raid shelter in the upper ditch victories.The bunker was built in 1940 on the foundations of the demolished synagogue in the previous year.The visitors were constructed from the memorial ceremony for the exhibition so impressed that the idea was to recall in a larger context of the former Jewish community.It then passed a few years in which the owner of the bunker, the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein, on the surrender of a portion of the building was negotiated for documentation purposes.On 10 November 1996 had finally come: In the presence of the rabbi's country of Westphalia, Dr. hc Henry G. Brandt, was the small museum, which will also be commemorative, learning and Dokumentationsort opened.Since that time the public is interested in the museum.Frequent visitors are groups particularly school groups who sign up for guided city tours followed with the history of National Socialism on the spot. A director of the museum patrons.He is closely involved in the work of the local Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, which performs a series of events at the museum.

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