Rhineland, Missouri - German-American Heritage Sites on Waymarking.com

County of town: Montgomery County
Location of town: south-central border in county, crossroads MO-94 & MO-EE, MO-P
County east-central in state
Location of post office: 102 Bluff St., Rhineland
Elevation: 518 ft (158 m)
Population: 139 (2013)

This is German country, Farmers mainly. The Katy Trail State Park use to cut through town, but since the flood the business re-built on this track, and the Katy Trail detours and twists through the ground where town use to be.
All residences moved up on top of the hill above the business area and grain elevators.

"Rhineland is a village in Montgomery County, Missouri, United States. The population was 176 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a town. Its name came from German immigrants from the River Rhine area.
Located on the north bank of the Missouri River, Rhineland was devastated by water in the Great Flood of 1993. It became the first town to accept federal funds to move out of a flood plain. All the houses in the town were moved about 1½ miles uphill." ~ MapQuest

"To some the suggestion that there might be such a thing as German Ozarks will seem strange. The popular image of the Ozarks is one of a region reflecting a British heritage brought by descendants of early English and Celtic settlers who had slowly trekked west from the Atlantic coast to the hills of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. To be sure, the British heritage of the Ozarks was the dominant cultural force throughout much of the region in past times, and to some extent remains so to this day. Yet, a second tradition is suggested by Ozarks place names such as Frankenstein (Osage County), Rhineland (Montgomery County), Freistatt (Lawrence County) and Altenburg (Perry County). These and other Teutonic place names suggest a German presence in the Ozarks, and it was and continues to be a major presence." ~ The Library