In 1574, Erligheim was broken per Ganerbschaft into quarters that eventually came into the possession of the Elector of Mainz.

When Oberamt Besigheim was dissolved in 1938, it was replaced with the newly organized Landkreis Ludwigsburg, to which Erligheim was assigned.

[3] The municipality (Gemeinde) of Erligheim is located in the district of Ludwigsburg, in Baden-Württemberg, one of the 16 States of the Federal Republic of Germany.

[3] Erligheim's coat of arms shows a green adler tree rooted to a field of white and decorated with an anthropomorphic, red moon.

The moon was re-added to the blazon in 1979, and this change was approved by the Ludwigsburg district office on 8 April 1980.