The placename "Bobingen" goes back to the Alamannic settler "Pobo" (ca 506).

[4] There is more than one version of the story about the Bobingen Büble ("lad" or "young man").

This, however, cannot be true from an historical point of view, as there were no gallows in Bobingen, and therefore no hangings could be carried out.

The Church Estate's High Justice establishment had its execution place at Schwabmünchen.

[1] Places on the 25-seat city council are apportioned as follows (as of municipal elections in 2014):[5] Arms description: Azure a peak argent, therein a horseshoe sable.

Others see in it a reference to finding horseshoes – which happens often around Bobingen – which are called "Ungarneisen" ("Hungary irons").

A seal from the time around 1815 with a horseshoe in the shield has its roots in a local emblem that places along the so-called Hochstraße, following then Prince-Bishop Clemens Wenzeslaus von Sachsen's (1739–1812) wishes, assumed for marking border stones, border posts, and even posts around pastures.

The Wertachklinik Bobingen provides the main departments anaesthesiology, trauma and reconstructive surgery and internal medicine and the departments gynaecology and midwifery, ENT and plastic surgery with attending doctors.

Since May 2022 the rescue station of the Bavarian Red Cross is located directly at the hospital of Bobingen.

The Public-safety answering point (PSAP) of Augsburg is responsible for alerting the rescue service.