#olpe

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Jugendherberge Biggesee, Olpe, September 2023

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Amasis Painter's signature

Attic Black figure olpe, detail from a scene Herakles entering Olympus

550-530 BCE

Amasis mepoiesen (= Amasis made me)

Louvre

Source: Louvre Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

 © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons

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~ Corinthian Olpe (Pitcher).

Date: ca. 575 BC.

Place of origin: Greece, Corinth

Medium: Black-figure terracotta.

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Church “Maria Hilf” (1966-69) in Olpe-Sondern, Germany, by Herman Gehrig

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Two horsemen.  Late Corinthian black-figure olpe, attr. to the Hippolytos Painter; ca. 575-550 BCE.  Now in the Louvre.

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Schöne Aussicht in Olpe im Siegerland

The Siegerland is a region, covering the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Northwestern Germany and the upper part of the Altenkirchen district of Rheinland-Pfalz. Geologically, it belongs to the Rhenish Slate Mountains). Its highest elevation is the Riemen, at 678 m above sea level.

The region around the city of Siegen includes the municipalities of Hilchenbach, Netphen, Kreuztal, and Freudenberg, and the communities of Wilnsdorf, Burbach, and Neunkirchen, all in Nordrhein-Westfalen, and in Rheinland-Pfalz, Kirchen, Herdorf, Betzdorf, and Daaden. The population is approximately 300,000.

The region also has a dialect — Siegerländisch which is spoken by many of its inhabitants.

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Olpe, Januar 2016

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Olpe, Oktober 2020