Editing Mosbach (section)

==History==
The settlement of Mosbach developed around the [[Order of St. Benedict|Benedictine]] monastery of [[Mosbach Abbey]] (''"Monasterium Mosabach"''), the first written record of which dates from the 9th century. In 1241 rights and privileges had been granted to Mosbach as an [[Imperial free city]]. These rights were lost in 1362 when Mosbach became part of the [[Electorate of the Palatinate]]. With the division of the lands of King [[Rupert, King of the Romans|Rupert]] in 1410, Mosbach became the capital of a small principality known as [[Palatinate-Mosbach]] as the inheritance for his son [[Otto I, Count Palatine of Mosbach|Otto I]]. With the death of his brother [[John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt]] 1443, the territory of [[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 II, Count Palatine of Mosbach-Neumarkt|Otto II]] in 1499. The city and adjoining territory reverted to the [[Electorate of the Palatinate]], and Mosbach became the capital of the administrative district of ''"Oberamt Mosbach"''. In 1806 the city was made part of the [[Grand Duchy of Baden]]. In [[World War II]], the Mosbach area was the location of a [[Daimler-Benz]]<ref name=Potsdam>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/AYearOfPotsdam/AYearOfPotsdam_djvu.txt|title = A Year of Potsdam|year = 1946|publisher = Office of Military Government. Economics Division.}}</ref> underground airplane engine factory,<ref name=Potsdam/><ref name=Gurney>
{{Citation |last=Gurney |first=Gene (Major, USAF) |year=1962 |title=The War in the Air: a pictorial history of World War II Air Forces in combat |location=New York |publisher=Bonanza Books 
|page=220}}</ref> codenamed "Goldfisch".<ref name=Potsdam/>  It was occupied by the [[289th Engineer Combat Battalion (United States)|289th Combat Engineer Battalion]] in the immediate postwar period.