Sien, Germany
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Location of Sien within Birkenfeld district
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| Coordinates: 49°41′41″N 07°30′15″E / 49.69472°N 7.50417°ECoordinates: 49°41′41″N 07°30′15″E / 49.69472°N 7.50417°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Birkenfeld | |
| Municipal assoc. | Herrstein | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Otto Schützle | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 8.47 km2 (3.27 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 345 m (1,132 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 503 | |
| • Density | 59/km2 (150/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55758 | |
| Dialling codes | 06788 | |
| Vehicle registration | BIR | |
| Website | www.sien.de | |
Sien is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Herrstein, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.
Sien lies between Idar-Oberstein and Lauterecken northeast of the Baumholder troop drilling ground.
Sien borders in the north on the municipality of Otzweiler (Bad Kreuznach district), in the east on the municipality of Hoppstädten (Kusel district; not to be confused with Hoppstädten-Weiersbach), in the south on the municipality of Langweiler (Kusel district; not to be confused with Langweiler in the Birkenfeld district), in the southwest on the municipality of Unterjeckenbach (Kusel district) and the Baumholder troop drilling ground and in the west on the municipality of Sienhachenbach. Sien also meets the municipality of Schmidthachenbach at a single point in the northwest.
The earliest traces of habitation in what is now Sien’s municipal area go far back before the Christian era, bearing witness to which are two extensive fields of barrows. There are hundreds here, built by the Treveri, a people of mixed Celtic and Germanic stock, from whom the Latin name for the city of Trier, Augusta Treverorum, is also derived. Among the most important archaeological finds unearthed at one of the two barrows where digs have been undertaken is a beak-spouted clay ewer. Buried with Celtic princes in the time around 400 BC (La Tène A) were Etruscan bronze beak-spouted ewers, a luxury that few could afford. These were for serving Celts as festive wine vessels, even in the afterlife. Grave goods from ordinary people’s graves, however, were humbler things, mostly made of clay. Nowhere had a clay imitation of a bronze Etruscan ewer ever been unearthed, which was somewhat against expectations, until 1972. That year, in Sien, a Celtic warrior’s grave yielded up such a vessel. The humble potter had not merely slavishly copied the Etruscan model, but had also thrown the 29 cm-tall piece on his wheel in such a way that he gave it a thoroughly unique artistic form. The original is to be found at the Trier State Museum, while a replicas are on display at the local history museum in Birkenfeld and in Sien.
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