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was founded in 1856 under the St. Martinus Olpe parish's sponsorship and at first it was run by two
Vincentine sisters. Each year, just under 11,000 patients, mainly from Olpe, Wenden and Drolshagen are treated. A staff of roughly 800 full-time and part-time workers have 385 beds in their care. The
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show an episode from Saint Martin's life, when he gave a beggar half his coat. As early as 1360, this scene adorned the town's oldest seal. In 1911, as a sign of the long membership in the
Archbishop-Electorate of Cologne (1180-1802), the cross of the Archbishop-Electors of Cologne was added to the
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Pallottines’ provincial head has stated that his congregation will, at least in the medium term, stay in Olpe. For economic reasons, however, the order has sold the building to an investor who wants to set up 40 dwellings for the aged and 100 fully equipped nursing care places. The Brethren and
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Altenkleusheim, Apollmicke, Bruch, Dahl, Eichhagen, Fahlenscheid, Friedrichsthal, Griesemert, Grube
Rhonard, Günsen, Hardt, Hanemicke, Hitzendumicke, Hof Siele, Hohl, Howald, Hüppcherhammer, Kessenhammer, Lütringhausen, Möllendick, Neger (divided into Unter-, Mittel- and Oberneger), Neuenkleusheim,
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opened in 1998, it was the first of its kind in
Germany. “A second home for the whole family” is one of the hospice's guiding principles. As well as living and laughing, dying and weeping can take place here. The whole family is to some extent guided over years until the child's death. Each year,
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and twin-tower façade. One of the two towers was destroyed in the bombing on 28 March 1945 and was never repaired, being left in its damaged state today as a memorial for peace. The current mayor, however, is trying to raise an endowment whose goal would be to rebuild the tower. Before the north
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first came to Olpe. In 1795, the Great Fire of Olpe destroyed 83% of the town. When the town was built once again, the old mediaeval appearance was cast aside in favour of a master plan that saw three broad, parallel streets built, connected by sidestreets running at right angles to them.
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Furthermore, under the town wall has lain the memorial site created by Ewald Mataré in 1963. It recalls the war's victims and serves as a memorial for the living, and since 1996 there has also been a “Hounds’ Memorial” commemorating a particular breed that arose in
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Olpe is found in a broad stretch of hilly country. In the town's north, the slopes are steeper and the dales narrower (for instance near the centres of Rhode and Neger); in the south, the hills have soft knolls and the dales are more spacious. There are also no
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Once Olpe was raised to town in 1311, the fortified town wall appeared no later than 1373. It consisted of three great and two lesser town gates and a few round towers. Today all that is left of the old town wall is some remnants in the
Weierhohl with the
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Arnsberg. This is done through undertaking to propose monumental protection, taking part in procedures as sponsors of public concerns, onsite studies, publishing work and “small monument care” (exchange with interested persons or groups).
3563:; Band: VIII; 3 Teilband. Im Auftrage der Historischen Kommission fĂĽr Westfalen und mit UnterstĂĽtzung des Landschaftsverbandes Westfalen-Lippe, published by the late Heinz Stoob and Wilfried Ehbrecht. Stadtmappe Olpe, Author: Manfred Wolf,
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interchanges. Westfälische Straße leaves the historic Old Town towards the northeast while
MartinstraĂźe, which is barred to heavy vehicles, leads out of the town centre towards the east. The inner town has at its disposal four free
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54, which serves as an eastern town bypass, near Rhode. In the south and west, the
Autobahnen A 4 and A 45 surround the municipal area. It is thereby possible for heavy traffic to bypass the town altogether on any side.
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Locally, Olpe has a number of places where people can involve themselves in athletic activities. For example, there are eleven gymnasia, nine tennis courts, and ten football/soccer fields. Also, Olpe is the birthplace of
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with connections to the Ruhr-Sieg-Express (RE 16). In the outlying centre of
Sondern is a “lake station” which allows a direct transfer from the railway to a passenger boat. It is the only one in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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The youth parliament sits, usually publicly, at least four times each year. If it is so wished, working groups can be formed at sittings for various projects in which even unelected member children and youths may work.
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Olpe's municipal area has a total area of 86 km. Its greatest extent is in both the north–south and east–west directions, reaching 11 km. Olpe's lowest point is the Biggesee lying at 307.5 m above
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Muggelkirmes (third Sunday in September), a great festival for a good cause offering many things for young and old without the usual carney trade, but instead with much amateur participation and a family
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Since 1 August 2007, there has been this current forest office made up of the former Attendorn (partly) and Olpe forest offices. The first time that a forest office in Olpe was mentioned was in 1810.
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the Father are staying in rented accommodations in town while the conversion is being done. They are to return to the Pallotti-haus afterwards as renters. Spiritual work is to continue unchanged.
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Culture plays an important role in the district seat. The town cultural office's regular events, as well as those staged by clubs from various fields form the portrait of cultural work in Olpe.
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Midsize and nationally active businesses in various fields are the underpinnings of today's economic life in the district seat. Among these are foundries, tube drawing factories, drop forges,
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reached Olpe, running at first to Attendorn and Finnentrop. Then came an Olpe-RothemĂĽhle line in 1880, and in 1903, another to Bergneustadt. In 1888, the town had its first
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These craftsmen also had their own guild and took up the important preparatory work for the tinsmiths, and also for other smiths. The works were powered by water.
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offers a great place for diving. Not only do locals come: there have also been many groups that come from abroad to have the opportunity to dive in the Biggesee.
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in Olpe and of suggesting measures to be taken, so that the town's council and administration can be more strongly responsive to children's and youths’ wishes.
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With over 3,000 members, the Turnverein Olpe or TVO is the largest athletic club in the municipality of Olpe. It has an eclectic lot of activities such as
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of the Everlasting Worship), a Catholic women's order whose main work is in taking care of children and nursing, was founded. It is nowadays known as the
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between 2013 and 2018. It is located in the former Hakemicke Hauptschule. The building of the former Realschule was abandoned and will be demolished.
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of the older houses that burnt down. In places, they jut into the street. In the 1990s, the marketplace was overhauled, and, except on Sundays when
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Many of the customs observed in town and in the outlying countryside are many hundreds of years old. They often have roots in church tradition.
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In 1819 Olpe became a district seat. At that time, it was the seat of the Bilsteiner Kreis; today it fills that place in the district of Olpe.
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This has a long tradition in Olpe, thereby having played an important rôle in the town's life. There was already a smiths’ guild by 1567, the
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Furthermore, each of these newspapers also has a local office in Olpe. Currently, all three publish in the morning, although until 2000, the
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Shooting festivals are held in many of the town's centres. The biggest one in the municipal area is the Olpe Shooting Festival held by the
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factories, machine factories and electronics manufacture. Furthermore, there are many businesses in crafts, trade and service industries.
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Olpe supposedly got its name from an older name for the land at the forks of the Olpe and Bigge ("Ol-apa" = brook in moist meadowland)
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has existed since late 2005. It represents youth's interests with the goal of developing proposals for improving the situation for
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Olpe had its first documentary mention in 1220. In 1311 it was granted town rights on the Soest model by the archbishop-elector of
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In a former school on 31 August 1982, the Olpe branch was officially opened. The main task is taking care of monuments in the
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There has been a Protestant parish since 1844. To it belongs Olpe's oldest church, which was built of red brick in 1898.
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As a result of municipal restructuring on 1 July 1969, the “old town” (the older town of Olpe and the outlying former
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for protection against conflagrations, however, was not recorded until 1665. Eight years later came the first vow to
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Boat tours can be taken on the Biggesee. The waters are plied from April until late October by two boats run by the
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Seventy-three buildings are listed on the town's list of monumental buildings, among them churches, rectories and
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In Olpe's newly renovated pool, there are several different pools and hot tubs. The same building also houses a
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in a house brewery, which is also sold outside the house. A neighbouring bakery also uses the beer to bake
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After the arson fire in 1907, Saint Martin's Church was built in the Gothic Revival style as a three-naved
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department. Sisters of the Olpe Franciscan congregation took over nursing duties in 1900. As of 1997, the
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There are three traffic thoroughfares in the town of Olpe. Bruchstraße carries north–south traffic to the
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layout was abandoned and a new one built from the ground up. This was conceived by Johann Adam Stahl. The
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The coldest month is January, and the warmest July. The high humidity in the winter months often leads to
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on the southern edge of the Ebbegebirge Nature Park. In the town's north lies South Westphalia's biggest
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is a midsize family business with its headquarters in Siegen. The other two papers both belong to the
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family estate. Until it closed in 1890, it was the oldest and biggest pit in Olpe. Alongside copper,
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54 (Münster–Lünen–Dortmund–Hagen–Olpe–Siegen–Limburg–Wiesbaden) and 55 (Olpe-Lennestadt-Meschede).
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This was built in 1897 and 1898 and is thereby the town's oldest church. It was built of red brick.
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In 1615, Olpe had its first schoolteacher, and in 1634 it had a great fire. The first vow to Saint
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The underlying minerals around the middle and upper Bigge are made up to a considerable degree of
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was erected in 1982 and recalls the former importance of this profession in the town of Olpe.
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was run as a not-for-profit limited company (GmbH), and it merged in 2000 with the Catholic
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In 1828, the shooting club was refounded. Its name is St.-Sebastianus-SchĂĽtzenverein. The
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since the mid 16th century in the Rhonard. Alongside many other small pits in Olpe the
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were built. Moreover, the town's location between the Siegerland on one side and the
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under-12 through under-21 development programs. There is also an eight-lane track, a
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centre. Since that time, the Franciscan sisters have no longer been working at the
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fire on the Gallenberg, the Bratzkopf and in almost every village in the town.
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was the foundation on which the iron foundries, hammerworks, tinsmithies and
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Herbert Straube (1904–1977), celebrity entrepreneur in the postwar years
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In the outlying centre of Oberveischede for a few years now, the MĂĽller
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now stands. The mills were supplied from the Olpe and Bigge through two
1996:(“Uppermost Town Mill”) in the Weierhohl. It is complemented by the old
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at its disposal. Current news about Olpe is to be had only through the
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and other pestilences. In 1696, the last witch was sentenced.
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was also mined. Moreover, there were also small yields of
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several stays of up to four weeks each are possible.
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Katholische Bekenntnisgrundschule Auf dem Gallenberg
2043:
exit, a statue of Saint Agatha has stood since 1979.
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At the lowest level, there are two parish clusters (
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The Sisters of Saint Francis of Perpetual Adoration
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3447:(1903–1975), Pallottine bishop and first Bishop of
3291:Berufskolleg des Kreises Olpe (vocational college)
3288:
Katholische Franz-Hitze-Bekenntnisgrundschule Rhode
3158:
Katholische Hospitalgesellschaft SĂĽdwestfalen gGmbH
2863:, or “Upper Lake”) was a canal boat by the name of
2776:At almost every street junction within the town, a
1006:Once a year, in early July, at the Festival of the
3606:, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 29 June 2021.
2554:memorial at the marketplace recalls the old guild.
858:. It was built anew in 1909, but this time in the
828:(Franciscans of the Everlasting Worship at Olpe).
3514:Johann Nikolaus Düringer (c. 1700–1756), sculptor
3368:
3124:clinic, a medicinal clinic, a women's clinic, an
2794:The town of Olpe is connected to two Autobahnen:
2392:is also mixed. It is served with a brown gravy –
2352:Between the Days-Festival (known as such even in
826:Franziskanerinnen von der ewigen Anbetung zu Olpe
491:The inner town is ringed by the following hills:
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3270:Katholische Bekenntnisgrundschule DĂĽringerschule
3079:, Olpe service building (regional forest office)
2087:is celebrated at Saint Martin’s Church, it is a
1992:The waterwheel stands at the former site of the
756:The only remaining part of Olpe's old town wall.
2581:was the biggest. It belonged until 1805 to the
1966:. However, there is no proof of this. The Olpe
1890:Kreishaus Olpe (district administration centre)
441:of Arnsberg and is the seat of the district of
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2895:Through Olpe runs the 1 080 km-long
2875:Around the Biggesee and the Lister Reservoir (
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818:Arme Franziskanerinnen von der ewigen Anbetung
606:clays and coarse clay. Furthermore, there are
589:The municipal area is an integral part of the
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3435:(born 1943), sopranist and professor of music
3392:Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration
3218:Schools and educational institutions in Olpe
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737:finds in the Olpe area date to about AD 900:
3541:Gerhard Schneider (born 1938), collector of
3015:Landesanstalt fĂĽr Medien Nordrhein-Westfalen
2413:for sale, a cold meat made of pickled cow's
884:were opened in 1971 and 1976 respectively.
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3423:(1851–1921), sociopolitical and theologian
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1068:An Evangelical Free Church community, the
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3621:Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW
3604:Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020
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3390:(1830–1905), beatified founder of the
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2649:Metallwerke Gustav Imhäuser GmbH &
576:Bundesamt fĂĽr Bauwesen und Raumordnung
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3509:Famous people connected with the town
3377:(1460–1531), theologian and publisher
2715:in Westphalia where it joined to the
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586:(South Sauerland Rothaar Foothills).
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2643:Gebr. Kemper GmbH & Co. KG, Olpe
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3235:Gemeinschaftsgrundschule Hohenstein
2683:(KBS 442) on which hourly runs the
2634:Karl Jungbecker GmbH & Co, Olpe
2630:Important enterprises in Olpe are:
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3669:Westfälische Rundschau (Newspaper)
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2754:Verkehrsgemeinschaft Westfalen SĂĽd
2730:As for local road transport, many
2223:The indoor pool before renovations
2171:Olpe's largest sports site is the
2071:After the Great Fire in 1795, the
1874:The following venues are on hand:
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2640:Peterseim GmbH & Co. KG, Olpe
2433:A genuine Olpe speciality is the
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779:History also records evidence of
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2813:, interchange: Wenden (Olpe-SĂĽd)
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1321:2020 municipal election results
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2300:St.-Sebastianus-SchĂĽtzenverein
1194:After municipal restructuring
1107:(for 31 December in each case)
992:Pastoralverbund Olpe-Biggesee,
835:station in Olpe. In 1875, the
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3498:(born 1947), politician (CDU)
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2687:(RB 92) passenger service to
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2332:”) with procession following.
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1922:Town wall in Olpe (Weierhohl)
1904:Förderverein Stadtmuseum Olpe
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3661:Siegener Zeitung (Newspaper)
3441:(born 1993), football player
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3460:(1928–2019), Bishop of
3429:(born 1981), footballer
3399:(1711–1773), theologian
3033:reports on the region.
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1851:Culture and sightseeing
1536:Gottfried Anton Gerlach
1493:Dr Johann Edmund Funcke
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1450:(“Town Director”). The
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3504:(born 1951), architect
3411:(born 1961), physicist
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2740:Busverkehr Ruhr-Sieg
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1823:upper right corner.
1515:Jodocus Edmund Weber
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1000:Pfarrei St. Cyriakus
988:Kirchspiel Kleusheim
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527:Olpe, itself fed by:
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481:Rother Stein (583 m)
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3194:The sponsor is the
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3130:intensive care unit
3037:Public institutions
3009:programme from the
2885:Radverkehrsnetz NRW
2627:is also important.
2533:Duchy of Westphalia
2475:Veischeder Landbier
2344:Der alte Zimmermann
2146:Siegen-Wittgenstein
2048:Evangelical church
2002:Unterste StadtmĂĽhle
1847:in Gif-sur-Yvette.
1612:Heinrich Sommerhoff
1577:Louis Wilhelm Liese
1544:Johann Adam Halbfas
1460:Mayors (since 1800)
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3492:(born 1946), actor
3473:and Member of the
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3415:Adolf von Hatzfeld
3383:(1893–1975), medic
3356:merged to the new
3224:Elementary schools
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3188:children's hospice
3150:St.-Josef-Hospital
3073:(financial office)
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1994:Oberste StadtmĂĽhle
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1471:Johannes Möllendik
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3055:employment agency
2980:Sauerländer Börse
2965:Sonntags-Anzeiger
2952:newspaper group.
2760:Streets and roads
2652:Polygonvatro GmbH
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2128:Natural monuments
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2173:Kreuzbergstadion
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2110:Valentinskapelle
1902:Since 1997, the
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