[2] The Beutelsbach Stift (or college) was probably founded in the 11th century and then later expanded by Count Ulrich I. of Württemberg.

The collegiate church in Beutelsbach was the burial site of the House of Württemberg from that point until the Stift was destroyed in 1311 and moved to Stuttgart.

After the dissolution of Oberamt Schorndorf in 1938, Beutelsbach joined the Waiblingen Kreis (district).

In 1973 Waiblingen was merged with other adjacent districts to form the Rems-Murr-Kreis, to which the area now belongs.

[8] The blazon of the former municipality's coat of arms reads: "Unter schwarzem Schildhaupt, darin ein liegender goldener Beutel, in Gold drei liegende schwarze Hirschstange" ("under a black banner, on which a golden pouch lies, with three black deer antlers horizontal in a field of gold").