Moselkern's neighbours are Müden in the west, the Münstermaifeld Stadtteil of Lasserg and Wierschem in the north and Burgen and Hatzenport in the northeast.

In 1280, Sir Hermann von Löf, a knight, forwent one third of the tithes gathered from winemaking and cereal yields in Moselkern in favour of the Münstermaifeld Foundation.

In 1424, Johann von Eltz was enfeoffed by the Electorate of Trier with his father Richard's fief, which comprised, among other things, vineyards in Moselkern.

In 1442, he was enfeoffed with benefits from winemaking, an estate and taxes out of his wife Agnes von Kobern's holdings by the Electorate of Trier.

In the Taxa generalia, which came into being about 1330, Moselkern was listed as “capella sive plebania” (“chapel or presbytery”) with a priest who celebrated Early Mass.

[3] Trier's lordship ended only a few years later with the occupation of the lands on the Rhine’s left bank by French Revolutionary troops in 1794.