Pett soaps

Pett soaps municipality Reichshof Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 37 ″ N , 7 ° 37 ′ 13 ″ E
Height :	280 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	68 (Jan. 1, 2007)
Postal code :	51580
Area code :	02261
	Location of Pettseifen in Reichshof

Pettseifen is one of 106 localities in the Reichshof municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne in Germany .

Location and description

The place is northeast of the Wiehltalsperre , the nearest centers are Gummersbach (15 km northwest), Cologne (64 km west) and Siegen (39 km southeast).

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1575: "Place on the map of A. Mercator ."

The spelling of the first mention was Pedseiffen .

^ 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 .