Siegburg

Siegburg is the county seat and administrative headquarters of the Rhein Sieg district in the administrative district of Cologne. It is placed within the south of North Rhine Westphalia and belongs to the metropolitan areas of the Rhineland and Rhine Ruhr. The oldest settlements within the vicinity of the metropolis Siegburg are at the time among 1000 and 500 v. Chr. Dated. Finds are occupied on the Bruckberg and the Seidenberg. Around 500 AD, the Frankish land acquisition reached the Siegburg region. 1060 become the expulsion of Count Palatine Henry I of Lorraine by Archbishop Anno II of Cologne as an alternative.

As a result, in 1064 the abbey Michael’s berg turned into founded by using the archbishop. 4 years later Siegburg 1069 obtained the marketplace, customs and coinage rights of King Henry IV and earlier than 1182 the town regulation. Since approximately 1000 Siegburg is taken into consideration a pottery town. The development of the pottery as a consequence began plenty earlier than inside the famous Rhenish pottery city Frechen. The potteries had been positioned within the suburb of Aulgasse. From about 1300 Siegburg skilled a flower of pottery.