Olpe (district)

Olpe
Olpe
District
	Coat of arms
	Coordinates: 51°05′N 8°00′E / 51.08°N 8.0°E
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Adm. region	Arnsberg
Capital	Olpe
Area
• Total	710.7 km2 (274.4 sq mi)
Population (31 December 2022)
• Total	134,439
• Density	190/km2 (490/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	OE
Website	http://www.kreis-olpe.de

Olpe is a Kreis (district) in the south-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

History

The district was created in 1817 as Bilsteiner Kreis, in 1819 the capital was moved to Olpe. During the reorganization of the districts in 1969 several of the municipalities in the district were joined together to become cities, but the district itself was only changed a little bit. Even in the second reorganization 1974 it stayed nearly in the same borders as in 1817.

Coat of arms

The left half of the coat of arms show the cologne cross, as the Olpe area belonged to the bishops of Cologne. The right side show the sign of the Lords of Fürstenberg, who were governors for the bishops in this area.

Towns and municipalities

Towns	Municipalities
Attendorn Drolshagen Lennestadt Olpe	Finnentrop Kirchhundem Wenden

References

↑ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2022 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 20 June 2023.

Other websites

Official Webpage
Der Vokalismus der Mundarten im Kreise Olpe Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine

[1] "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2022 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 20 June 2023.

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