[2] Today the Museum Mödlareuth shows the history of the village and gives information about the political system at that time.

In the year 1374 the village was mentioned for the first time in a document of the parish church of Gefell (original spelling: Modelotenreut).

[3] In 1810 (see Napoleonic Wars) the Tannbach stream (only around 30 cm; 1' wide), which flows through Mödlareuth, became the new border between the Kingdom of Bavaria and the principality of Reuss Junior Line.

There was just one school and one restaurant, both on the Reuss side, the villagers went to church in the neighboring Bavarian municipality Töpen.

In 1983, the then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush visited and exclaimed, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!

[1] Bush visited Mödlareuth together with the then Defense Minister of West-Germany Manfred Wörner who later became the seventh Secretary General of NATO.