Schneppenhurth

Schneppenhurth municipality Reichshof Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 4 " N , 7 ° 41 ′ 29" E
Height :	376 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	54 (Jan. 1, 2007)
Postal code :	51580
Area code :	02296
	Location of Schneppenhurth in Reichshof

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

Location and description

The closest centers are Gummersbach (15 km northwest), Cologne (64 km west) and Siegen (39 km southeast).

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1464: Homburg border tower.

The spelling of the first mention was Sneppenhort / Sneppenhurt .

^ 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 .