DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Freistaat Sachsen	Saxony
Landkreis: Vogtlandkreis

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Mühltroff is situated at an elevation of 482 m in the extreme northwest of the Vogtlandkreis district of south-western Saxony.

The village was first mentioned in a document dating from 1274. The oldest referral to Mühltroff as a town dates from 1367. The name Mühltroff goes back to the older name Muldorf, referring to water-mills in the village. The oldest of these water-mills dates back to the 14th century and is today used as a residential building. Fish farming had been important for the town in old times, which also is the origin of the whitefish in the crest of the town. The oldest textile manufacture was mentioned in the 15th century and cloth-making was important for the town ever since. The castle of Mühltroff today houses a museum of textiles. Mühltroff had been part of the Thuringian district of Schleiz until 1 April 1992 when it was reallocated to Saxony.
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mühltroff]

Mühltroff castle [left] was first mentioned in 1349 but certainly is older. Owners of the castle were, among others, the bailiffs of Plauen, the margraves of Meißen, the knights of the Edlen Säcke, the barons of Bogenhausen and of Kospoth, and the counts of Hohenthal-Püchau. Otto Carl Erdmann von Kospoth (1753–1817) also was Prussian chamberlain and a well-known composer of his time. In the early 1940s, the town of Mühltroff obtained the castle as a donation.
[http://schloss-muehltroff.de/Geschichte.2.html]