[Python] encoding issue. Replace special character

I have a dictionary that looks like this:

{ u'Samstag & Sonntag': u'Ganztags ge\xf6ffnet', u'Freitag': u'18:00 & 22:00'}


Now I'm trying to replace the \xf6 with ö , but trying .replace('\xf6', 'ö') returns an error:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
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How can I fix this?

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