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 BC to AD 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.
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Official website (http://www.oerlinghausen.de/) (in German)
Oerlinghausen is home to the busiest glider airport in Europe as well as the well known "Archäologisches Freilichtmuseum Oerlinghausen" featuring reconstructions of a variety of dwellings spanning from 10,000 B.C. to A.D. 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.
Marianne Schnitger was born on August 2, 1870 in Oerlinghausen to medical doctor Eduard Schnitger and his wife Anna Weber, daughter of a linen manufacturer.
After the death of her grandmother in 1889 and several years as a house daughter with relatives in Oerlinghausen she in 1892 moved in with relatives of her mother, Max and Helene Weber, parents of her future husband Max Weber, the sociologist.
After moving to Freiburg in 1894 she began to engage herself in the women's movement and continued this involvement after moving to Heidelberg in 1897.
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