The following excerpt is from " Kloepfer-Klopfer Genealogy & More" by W. Wesley Kloepfer, 1993:
As translated by the son of Klaus Krippl, we have a short history of Moos, which reads as follows:
"Moos is a village in the "Rheinebene", near the mill-brook, 129 meters above the sea level and 7.6 km. away from Bühl, the capitol of the district. In 1335 the village was first named as Mose, in 1476 as Moss (= marsh) and finally as today, Moos. Nowadays there isn't so much marshy ground because of the regulation of the Rhein, so the nature of the ground is much better than it was 500 years ago. Like most of the villages in the neighborhood, Moos results from one of the "Meierhöfe" (farms of a monastery) of the Abbey Schwarzach. Since the 13th century Moos was a fief of the Masters of R6dersbach (= Rittersbach near Bühl) , later it was a fief of the knights from Tiefenau, near Zinzheim. The vassals had to give 16 quaters of grain, 2 quaters of oats, 2 turkeys, 2 chickens and 3 schillings (currency of this century).
Besides the monastery farm and its ground the abbey possessed further estates in Moos which were leased to the farmers of Moos. During the 30 Years War, especially between 1632 and 1634, 26 houses were burned. During the next eight years nobody lived in Moos. Most of the citizens (38) were killed. The homes were plundered and live stock taken, they lost 350 horses, 249 cows and 240 pigs.
Since 1358 a chapel existed in Moos, built in the design of the church structure at Kappelwindeck, and was consecrated to St. Nicholas, St. Erhard, St. Theobald and St. Katharina. The church was built between 1784 and 1788. After the secularization of the abbey at Schwarzach in 1803, Moos was included in the district of the "Grossherzogtum Baden". Since 1809 St. Dionys Parish in Moos has been an independent parish. Until that time Moos was part of the parish of Schwarzach. The court of justice was in Vimbuch. A schoolhouse was built in 1885."
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