Frickenhausen is a town in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

For the first time the municipality was called in the early 14th century Frickenhusen.

However, epidemics, war and bad harvests made the income volatile, so many people worked from mid-18th century on linen weaving, spinning and flax.

Today there is a Protestant church in each of the three municipal parts.

In the center there is also a Roman Catholic church and since several years a New Apostolic congregation.