Olpe Rural District

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Olpe
Map of North Rhine-Westphalia highlighting the district of Olpe
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Adm. region	Arnsberg
District seat	Olpe
Area	710.7 km²
Population	141,705 (2001)
Pop. density	199 /km²
Licence plate code	OE
Web page	http://www.kreis-olpe.de

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

1 History
2 Coat of arms
3 Towns and municipalities
4 Other websites

[change] 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.

[change] Coat of arms

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.

[change] Towns and municipalities

Towns	Municipalities
Attendorn Drolshagen Lennestadt Olpe	Finnentrop Kirchhundem Wenden

[change] Other websites

Official Webpage

v • d • e Urban and rural districts in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany
Urban districts	Aachen • Bielefeld • Bochum • Bonn • Bottrop • Dortmund • Duisburg • Düsseldorf • Essen • Gelsenkirchen • Hagen • Hamm • Herne • Köln (Cologne) • Krefeld • Leverkusen • Mönchengladbach • Mülheim • Münster • Oberhausen • Remscheid • Solingen • Wuppertal
Rural Districts	Aachen • Borken • Coesfeld • Düren • Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis • Euskirchen • Gütersloh • Heinsberg • Herford • Hochsauerland • Höxter • Kleve • Lippe • Märkischer Kreis • Mettmann • Minden-Lübbecke • Oberbergischer Kreis • Olpe • Paderborn • Recklinghausen • Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis • Rhein-Erft-Kreis • Rhein-Kreis Neuss • Rhein-Sieg-Kreis • Siegen-Wittgenstein • Soest • Steinfurt • Unna • Viersen • Warendorf • Wesel