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Olpe

North Rhine-westphalia, Germany
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About Olpe

Olpe is a town arranged in the lower regions of the Ebbegebirge in North Rhine-Westphalia, about 60 km east of Cologne and 20 km northwest of Siegen. It is a piece of the Regierungsbezirk of Arnsberg and is the seat of the district of Olpe. Olpe lies in the Sauerland on the southern edge of the Ebbegebirge Nature Park. In the town's north lies South Westphalia's greatest repository, the Biggesee. Olpe is found in a wide stretch of sloping nation. In the town's north, the inclines are more extreme and the dales smaller; in the south, the slopes have delicate meadows and the dales are increasingly open. There are additionally no plateaux there.

Olpe evidently got its name from a more seasoned name for the land at the forks of the Olpe and Bigge. The primary archeological finds in the Olpe region date to about AD 900: potsherds and slag from iron mining and working in the deserted focus of Kimickerberg, coins in Dahl from after 1005. Olpe had its first narrative notice in 1220. In 1311 it was conceded town rights on the Soest model by the ecclesiastical overseer balloter of Cologne, Count Heinrich II of Virneburg. In 1500, the Kreuzkapelle was first referenced. The main proof of a shooting society followed in 1525. History likewise records proof of witch preliminaries being held in the Olpe legal territory somewhere in the range of 1587 and 1697.

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