Olpe is a town in the foothills of the Ebbegebirge in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, about 60 kilometers east of Cologne and 20 kilometers northwest of Siegen, with 24,518 residents as of December 31, 2025. It is the administrative seat of the Olpe district, part of the Arnsberg region, and lies in the Sauerland on the southern edge of the Ebbegebirge Nature Park, with the Biggesee reservoir, the largest in South Westphalia, to its north. First mentioned in 1220 and granted town rights in 1311, Olpe is overwhelmingly Catholic and has a long industrial history of iron foundries, hammerworks, tinsmithies and tanneries.
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1. GeoNames: Olpe
GeoNames geonameid 2857306 (Olpe), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.25, 7.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.25, 7.75
51.25 7.75 Cfb
3. GeoNames: Olpe - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2857306, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 2857306, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
51.02899 7.85139 P PPLA3 DE 07 059 05966 05966024 25686 321 Europe/Berlin
Wikidata: Olpe
Olpe (Wikipedia)
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Olpe, Germany, a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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