The right to agricultural use of the Murnau Moor has been regulated for centuries by a special lottery system, as in the neighboring towns. Such moor lottery took place as early as the 16th century. In 1846, the moor lands (1958.5 dayworks, 1 daywork is about 3400 square meters) that had previously been owned by the community were handed over to the 218 citizens at the time. The moor shares (“Möser”) were given as property to the respective house, not to the respective house owner. The moor right referred to four moor plots at a time. They were raffled off every ten years in order to fairly balance out the different yields of the “Möser” through changes. Every ten years, three moor shares, mostly located to the left of the Ramsach, were raffled off in a large moor lottery and one moor share located to the right of the Ramsach was raffled off in a small moor lottery (usually three years later). The moor parts had field names and were subdivided by number. The size of each of the four “Möser” was approximately three hectares (= 3,000 square meters) in total, while those of poorer quality were given larger dimensions, so that a person entitled to moss could receive up to six hectares of moss land. Before the lottery, the “Möser” were “marketed” by the moss rights committee and marked out using sharpened wooden stakes. The big lottery has taken place since 1851 on the Tuesday after Pentecost at the Ramsachkircherl. After the lottery, each person entitled to moss looked for his three “Möser” and marked out his moss boundaries using four oak stakes each. When in 1970 only a few Murnau residents were still farming and needed litter from the moss, the moss lottery was abolished. The last one took place in Murnau in 1971.