Knight soaps

Knight soaps municipality Morsbach Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 22 ″ N , 7 ° 42 ′ 4 ″ E
Height :	188 m above sea level NN
Residents :	15 (Dec 31, 2007)
Postal code :	51597
Area code :	02294

Ritterseifen is a district of Morsbach in the Oberbergisches Kreis in southern North Rhine-Westphalia within the administrative district of Cologne .

Location and description

Ritterseifen is located in a rural, wooded area at the southernmost tip of the Oberbergischer Kreis. The cities of Gummersbach (38 km), Siegen (35 km) and Cologne (75 km) can be reached in a few minutes by car.

Neighboring districts are Katzenbach in the north, Volperhausen in the south, and Steimelhagen in the southwest.

history

First mention

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1580 , namely "Peter uff dem Rittersseiffenn, a Freimann, is mentioned in the Hoenerzetteln."

The spelling of the first mention was on the Rittersseiffenn .

swell

^ 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 .

[1] 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 .