Optical position measurement device for determining the position of a first object with respect to a second object that is movable in relation thereto along at least one measurement direction (x), having - a measuring standard extending along the measurement direction (x), said measuring standard being connected to the first object, and - comprising a first track with an incremental measurement graduation which consists of graduation regions having different optical properties, which are arranged in alternation along the measurement direction (x) periodically with a measurement graduation periodicity (P INC), wherein the measurement graduation periodicity (P INC) indicates the sum of the widths of adjacent, different graduation regions, and - comprising a second track with an absolute measurement graduation which has coding for absolute position determination and consists of graduation regions with different optical properties which are arranged aperiodically along the measurement direction (x), - a scanning unit connected to the second object, having - at least one light source, - a detector with an absolute detector arrangement for capturing an aperiodic light pattern transferred from the absolute measurement graduation into a detection plane and an incremental detector arrangement for capturing a periodic light pattern transferred from the incremental measurement graduation into the detection plane, and also - a fibre-optic plate consisting of a multiplicity of optical fibres arranged so as to adjoin one another, the image entry surfaces of which face the measuring standard and the image exit surfaces of which face the detector, characterized in that the fibre-optic plate is arranged as a continuous component upstream of the absolute detector arrangement and the incremental detector arrangement and in this way both a transfer of absolute track information and also of incremental track information into the respective detection planes takes place via the fibre-optic plate. - a measuring standard extending along the measurement direction (x), said measuring standard being connected to the first object, and - comprising a first track with an incremental measurement graduation which consists of graduation regions having different optical properties, which are arranged in alternation along the measurement direction (x) periodically with a measurement graduation periodicity (P INC), wherein the measurement graduation periodicity (P INC) indicates the sum of the widths of adjacent, different graduation regions, and - comprising a second track with an absolute measurement graduation which has coding for absolute position determination and consists of graduation regions with different optical properties which are arranged aperiodically along the measurement direction (x), - comprising a first track with an incremental measurement graduation which consists of graduation regions having different optical properties, which are arranged in alternation along the measurement direction (x) periodically with a measurement graduation periodicity (P INC), wherein the measurement graduation periodicity (P INC) indicates the sum of the widths of adjacent, different graduation regions, and - comprising a second track with an absolute measurement graduation which has coding for absolute position determination and consists of graduation regions with different optical properties which are arranged aperiodically along the measurement direction (x), - a scanning unit connected to the second object, having - at least one light source, - a detector with an absolute detector arrangement for capturing an aperiodic light pattern transferred from the absolute measurement graduation into a detection plane and an incremental detector arrangement for capturing a periodic light pattern transferred from the incremental measurement graduation into the detection plane, and also - a fibre-optic plate consisting of a multiplicity of optical fibres arranged so as to adjoin one another, the image entry surfaces of which face the measuring standard and the image exit surfaces of which face the detector, - at least one light source, - a detector with an absolute detector arrangement for capturing an aperiodic light pattern transferred from the absolute measurement graduation into a detection plane and an incremental detector arrangement for capturing a periodic light pattern transferred from the incremental measurement graduation into the detection plane, and also - a fibre-optic plate consisting of a multiplicity of optical fibres arranged so as to adjoin one another, the image entry surfaces of which face the measuring standard and the image exit surfaces of which face the detector,