Ersbach

Ersbach municipality Reichshof Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 40 ″ N , 7 ° 39 ′ 26 ″ E
Height :	311 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	63 (Jan. 1, 2007)
Postal code :	51580
Area code :	02265
	Location of Ersbach in Reichshof

Ersbach is a place with a total of 63 inhabitants in the municipality of Reichshof in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne in Germany .

Location and description

Ersbach is located west of Eckenhagen , the nearest centers are Gummersbach (11 km northwest), Cologne (61 km west) and Siegen (45 km southeast).

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1509 . "Heinrich von Erßbach witnessed a border circumvention."

The spelling of the first mention was Erßbach .

^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary naming of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Sonderbd. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .