Motten originally belonged to the
Bishop of Fulda, and was secularized in 1803 and given to Archduke Ferdinand of Orange. In 1806, it became part of the province of Fulde in
France. In the
Congress of Vienna in 1815, it was given to
Austria. Since the Treaty of Munich of 1816, it has belonged to Bavaria. On the evening of 22 October 2005, a tornado destroyed parts of the industrial district. ==Demographics==