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Siegen
[ zee-guhn ]
noun
- a city in North Rhine–Westphalia in W Germany, on the Sieg River.
Siegen
/ ˈsiːɡən /
noun
- a city in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia: manufacturing centre; birthplace of Rubens. Pop: 107 768 (2003 est)
Example Sentences
Last summer, Göttingen in Lower Saxony and Siegen in North Rhine Westphalia allowed women to swim topless.
After the shooting, deputies were called to the 6100 block of Siegen Lane in Baton Rouge, where Blackard told police he was "playing with his gun" when it was accidentally discharged.
Rubens was born in the predominantly Protestant town of Siegen, east of Cologne, Germany, one of several children of Maria Pypelinckx and Jan Rubens, a city official.
One option is to turn urban areas into “sponge cities,” where sealed surfaces like sidewalks or rooftops are covered with greenery that helps absorb rainwater, said Lamia Messari-Becker, a civil engineering professor at the University of Siegen in Germany and adviser to the German government.
Lamia Messari-Becker, professor of civil engineering at the University of Siegen and an adviser to the German government on sustainable urban development, agrees, saying digital flood alarms for at-risk properties should be as common as smoke detectors.
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