page_title: Siegburg
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Siegburg / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Servatius Church and "Haus zum Winter" (built in 1220) in Siegburg, Germany
context_page_description: Siegburg is a city in the district of Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the banks of the rivers Sieg and Agger, 10 kilometres from the former seat of West German government Bonn and 26 kilometres from Cologne. The population of the city was 39,192 in the 2013 census.
context_section_description: Archbishop-Elector Anno II of Cologne founded a Benedictine monastery in 1064, known as Michaelsberg Abbey, on top of the hill also called the Michaelsberg. A settlement that arose from that was first mentioned as a city in 1182. Siegburg reached the height of its prosperity in the 15th and 16th century. It is famous for its pottery, especially for the Siegburg pitchers (Siegburger Krüge).
  Siegburg has been the county seat of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis since 1816.
  Siegburg's synagogue was destroyed on Kristallnacht, signaling the demise of its Jewish community.
caption: St. Servatius and the Haus zum Winter (1220 AD)
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