Missing imageOerlinghausenCoatOfArms.gif Coat of Arms of Oerlinghausen
Missing imageOerlinghausenView.jpg Overall View of Oerlinghausen
is a city in the
Lippe district of
North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany located between
Bielefeld and
Detmold in the
Teutoburger Wald. It has an area of 32.7
km² and 17,429 inhabitants (2003). First mentioned in documents in 1036, the town became a city in
1926 by authority of the
Land of Lippe. In
1969 the city was expanded with the addition of Helpup, Währentrup und Lipperreihe as part of the "Gebietsreform" movement. Oerlinghausen is home to the busiest
glider airport in Europe as well as the well known "Archäologische Freilichtmuseum" featuring reconstructions of a variety of dwellings spanning from 10,000 B.C. to A.D. 1000. The city has also been home to an unusual number of well-known sociologists.
Marianne Weber (born Schnitger), who grew up in Oerlinghausen and married
Max Weber here in 1893, was a well-respected author herself.
Niklas Luhmann and
Richard Grathoff, two of the key sociologists who made the
Bielefeld University one of the premier institutions for sociology in Europe, have also lived in Oerlinghausen for extended time periods.
External link
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