Olpe (German pronunciation: [ˈɔlpə] ) is a town situated in the foothills of the Ebbegebirge in North Rhine-Westphalia, roughly 60 km east of Cologne and 20 km northwest of Siegen. It is part of the Regierungsbezirk of Arnsberg and is the seat of the district of Olpe.
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Olpe, Germany in the context of Kölsch language
Colognian or Kölsch (pronounced [kœ̂lɧ], narrower ; full name Kölsch Platt) is a small set of very closely related dialects, or variants, of the Ripuarian group of dialects of the Central German group. These dialects are spoken in the area covered by the Archdiocese and former Electorate of Cologne reaching from Neuss in the north to just south of Bonn, west to Düren and east to Olpe in northwest Germany.
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Count Heinrich II of Virneburg (German: Graf Heinrich II. von Virneburg; 1244 or 1246 – 5 January 1332) was Archbishop of Cologne from 1304 to his death in 1332.
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