Welcome to Oelde!

Oelde is located in the district of Warendorf and borders on the region of East Westphalia. It takes about half an hour to get to Bielefeld by car, for example, and about an hour to Münster and Münster/Osnabrück Airport (FMO). Paderborn/Lippstadt Airport is just as easy to reach. The district town of Warendorf is half an hour away.

Regional trains run from Oelde station to Münster, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Hamm and Bielefeld.

Tip: Münsterland is a cycling region! 4,500 kilometres of cycle paths offer you almost unlimited possibilities in the city and in the countryside: you can commute to work comfortably by bike and go on great tours with friends and family.

Oelde consists of the town centre, the districts of Lette, Stromberg and Sünninghausen as well as a few rural hamlets. Most of the almost 30,000 inhabitants live in the main town, around 5,000 in the south-eastern district of Stromberg, which is home to a pilgrimage church and the ruins of a hilltop castle. The district of Lette, which is home to around 2,300 people, lies to the north of the town centre. Sünninghausen is the smallest district with around 1300 inhabitants and lies to the south of the town centre. As in Stromberg, new residential areas have also been built in Sünninghausen in recent years.

Even though rental and purchase prices are following the general property trend overall, there are still numerous niches to be discovered in Münsterland when it comes to building, buying or renting. Here you can find the average purchase and rental prices for a house or flat in rural areas of Münsterland.

For tenants, the city council has compiled information on the current rent index.

If you want to shop, the pedestrian zone in the city centre is the place to be. In addition to gift, toy and stationery shops, you can also browse in shoe shops, branches of large fashion chains and small boutiques and concept stores. In between are cafés, bars and restaurants. For your tour by bike or e-bike, you can shop in several bike shops.

You can get groceries not only in several supermarkets, but also twice a week at the market.

14 kindergartens and daycare centres look after the next generation in Oelde and its districts. The town council provides information on its website about enrolment and daycare centre fees as well as the daycare services

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At the schools in Oelde, children and young people can complete all school qualifications up to the Abitur:

• Six primary schools (one in Stromberg and one in Lette)
• One special school (specialising in physical and motor development)
• One comprehensive school with two locations
• One grammar school

In addition to small and medium-sized businesses operating in many different sectors, Oelde is also home to a number of large companies. Among the best known are the long-established Pott's brewery, the headquarters of the Zurbrüggen furniture chain and a plant of the household appliance manufacturer Miele.

The hospital in Oelde - the Marien-Hospital - is an academic teaching hospital of the University of Münster.