Mössingen is located on the northern edge of the Swabian Jura in the Valley of the Steinlach, a right tributary of the Neckar.

Mössingen is in the area of a convoluted rock sequence from clays, sandstones, marls and limestone benches of Black, Brown and White Jurassic (Lias, Dogger and Malm).

On 12 April 1983, after persistent rains, the largest landslide in Baden-Württemberg took place in the Mössingen district at the Hirschkopf (stag head), 48°22′40″N 09°04′00″E / 48.37778°N 9.06667°E / 48.37778; 9.06667) due to the layered conditions of different rocks of the edge of the Alb (Albtrauf).

Furthermore, rock material is continually transported away by natural erosion, so it must come inevitably sooner or later to such a slide.

Small area calcareous grasslands on Brown Jura slopes recall the time when the shepherding still took a greater role.

The plateau of Farrenbergs is a red-backed shrike habitat and reproductive center of the Euplagia quadripunctaria moth.

The following cities and municipalities adjoin the city Mössingen and belong to district of Tübingen¹ or the Reutlingen county² and the Zollernalbkreis³ (starting clockwise from the north): Nehren¹, Gomaringen¹, Reutlingen², Sonnenbühl², Burladingen³, Hechingen³, Bodelshausen¹ and Ofterdingen¹.

[5] Mössingen is first mentioned in a document of Lorsch Abbey ("in pago Alemannorum in Messinger marca") from the year 774.

An emigration swell in the late 18th to the early 19th century to Poland, Transylvania and America weakened the site further.

Mössingen found widespread attention on 31 January 1933, as the location of the sole workers' uprising in Germany against the seizure of power by Adolf Hitler.

Through population growth, immigration profits by expellees and foreign and resettled Russia German, the economic upturn from 1950 reached the region.

In Öschingen, Belsen and at the edges of the core city and Bästenhardt incurred large residential areas.

2008, the state government approved the proposal of the city, to raise Mössingen on 1 January 2009 to Große Kreisstadt.

[6] The Mössingen neighborhoods have a convoluted and different story, though all including the urban core belonged till 1403 to the county of Zollern and then came to Württemberg.

The currently existing parishes Martin Luther, Johannes and Peter and Paul belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

There is an agreed management unit of the Town of Mössingen with the communities Bodelshausen and Ofterdingen.

Mössingen leads in addition, relief and supplementary functions at the level of a middle center.

The colors of the emblem black and silver are intended to identify the former membership in the county Zollern.

The lower left panel shows a silvery fountain with shared water jet.

The three heraldic shields in the right upper field should remember the Dreifürstenstein, the mountain of Mössingen.

Venue of the "Spiritual Concerts" are the three Protestant churches in Mössingen and the Catholic Marienkirche.

[9] Since 1985, a memorial plaque on the Jacob-Stotz Square reminds of the communist opponent of Hitler Jacob Stotz,[11] who led as authoritative party to Mössinger general strike of 31 January 1933 one of the few made in Germany 'protests against the Nazi dictatorship for which he was sentenced to several years of imprisonment, but this survived and after 1945 participated in the democratic reconstruction of the site.

Boules, the French national sport can be played on two courses in the green area at the Steinlach.

Extensive commercial areas are located in the south-west and north (Schlattwiesen) of core city.

There are shops for the specific needs such as jewelers, opticians and toy stores, but also service providers such as financial institutions, insurance companies and medical practices.

In a quarry on the western edge of the district the slate of the Black Jurassic was broken down for many years.

Despite the location of Mössingen on the Albtrauf, the presence of mineral springs and the diverse natural features, tourism has gained not a high priority.

The Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg built from 1962 to 1965 northeast of Mössingen a secondary school with boarding, today Evangelische Schulen am Firstwald.

From district Talheim leads L 385 as a pass road to the plateau of the Swabian Jura by Melchingen.