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Mosbach is the capital of the Neckar-Odenwald district in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about 58 km east of Heidelberg. Its geographical position is 49.21'N 9.9'E. It has a population of approximately 25,000 people distributed in six boroughs: Mosbach Town, Lohrbach, Neckarelz, Diedesheim, Sattelbach and Reichenbuch.

The settlement of Mosbach developed around the Benedictine monastery of Mosbach Abbey ("Monasterium Mosabach"), the first written record of which dates from the 9th century. In 1241 rights and privile ges had been granted to Mosbach as an Imperial free city. These rights were lost in 1362 when Mosbach became part of the Electoral Palatinate. With the division of the lands of King Rupert in 1410, Mo sbach became the capital of a small principality known as Palatinate-Mosbach as the inheritance for his son Otto I. With the death of his brother John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt 1443, the territory o f Palatinate-Neumarkt was added in a personal union to Palatinate-Mosbach creating the territory of Palatinate-Mosbach-Neumarkt. This principality was dissolved with the death of Count Palatine Otto I I in 1499. The city and adjoining territory reverted to the Electoral Palatinate, and Mosbach became the capital of the administrative district of "Oberamt Mosbach". In 1806 the city was made part o f the Grand Duchy of Baden. In World War II, the Mosbach area was the location of an underground airplane engine factory.[2] The etymology for Mosa- is related to the words Marsh, Mosses, Mousse etc. Bach- is literally Beck in English, and Bogg in Norse. It generally means river in Germany... Because we are talking abou t a geographic location Mosbach and its alternate spelling Musbach basically mean Marsh-River.