Puppy (Reichshof)

Puppy municipality Reichshof Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 3 ″ N , 7 ° 44 ′ 55 ″ E
Height :	386 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	103 (December 31, 2008)
Postal code :	51580
Area code :	02297
	Location of Welpe in Reichshof

Welpe 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

Welpe is north-east of the Wiehltalsperre , the nearest centers are Gummersbach (15 km northwest), Cologne (64 km west) and Siegen (39 km southeast).

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1382 (?): "In the Bergischen Lehnsbuch the house is named Welpe in the Windeck district."

The spelling of the first mention was puppy .

^ 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 .