The Sieg river near Dattenfeld (Windeck municipality/ Rhein-Sieg district).
(January 2024)
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#Flüsse, #rivers, #Sieg, #Winter, #Schnee, #snow, #Dattenfeld, #Rhein_Sieg_Kreis

Entrance door to St. Michael's Abbey Church in Siegburg (Rhein-Sieg district).
(December 2025)
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#Türen, #doors, #Kirchen, #churches, #Michaelsberg, #Siegburg, #Rhein_Sieg_Kreis

The Abbey Church of St. Michael in Siegburg, dating from the 17th/18th century, was largely destroyed by a bombing raid in 1944 and rebuilt in 1953.
A coloured copperplate engraving from around 1800 shows the basalt cone in Siegburg on which the abbey was built.
(December 2025)
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#Kirchen, #churches, #Architektur, #architecture, #Saint_Michael, #Siegburg, #Rhein_Sieg_Kreis

A ‘mobile bakery’ at the medieval Christmas market in Siegburg;
(December 2025)
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#Mittelaltermarkt, #medieval_market, #Bäckerei, #Siegburg, #Rhein_Sieg_Kreis

The medieval Christmas market on Siegburg's market square; behind it stands the Catholic Church of St. Servatius and on the hill the former Benedictine abbey of Michaelsberg.
(December 2025)
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#Mittelaltermarkt, #medieval_market, #Saint_Servatius, #Michaelsberg, #Siegburg, #Rhein_Sieg_Kreis

On a basalt cone in the middle of Siegburg, the Michaelsberg, Lorraine palatine counts built a castle around 800, on which the Archbishop of Cologne, Anno II, founded a Benedictine abbey in 1064, which existed until 1803. In the following years, the abbey was used for various purposes. The abbey church is still in use today.
The abbey still has a castle-like appearance.
The oldest part is the gatehouse.
(December 2025)
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#Burgen, #castles, #Abtei, #abbey, #Benediktiner, #Michaelsberg, #Siegburg, #Rhein_Sieg_Kreis

Bamboo masks at a stall at the medieval Christmas market in Siegburg.
(December 2025)
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#Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Bambusmasken, #Mittelalterlicher_Markt, #medieval_market, #Siegburg, #Rhein_Sieg_Kreis

Madonna enthroned in the Romanesque/Neo-Romanesque Church of St. John the Beheaded in Lohmar (Rhein-Sieg district)
(November 2025)
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#Figuren, #Madonna_Figuren, #Kirchen, #churches, #Lohmar, #Rhein_Sieg_Kreis

Fallow deer in a private game reserve in Honrath (Lohmar municipality, Rhein-Sieg district).
(September 2025)
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#Damwild, #Damhirsch, #fallow_deer, #animals, #Honrath, #Lohmar, #Rhein_Sieg_Kreis

Coat of arms at Auel Castle near Lohmar-Wahlscheid (Rhein-Sieg district). However, I do not know which of the castle's various owners it belongs to.
(September 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Wappen, #coats_of_arms, #Schloß_Auel. #Wahlscheid, #Lohmar, #Rhein_Sieg_Kreis