Many residents work in industrial areas south of Stuttgart or in nearby Balingen.

In 1764 Carl von Ulm zu Erbach take care by Decretum für das Amt Beeder Herrschaften Werenwag und Callenberg for the Poor.

[6] In 1863 those fruits included Luiken, Winterlinge, Fleiner, Knausbirnen, Bratbirnen, Glöcklesbirnen, Fäßlesbirnen, Grunbirnen, Lederäpfel, Breitlinge, Goldparmäne, Rosenäpfel, Zuckerbirnen and Bergamottbirnen.

[13][clarification needed] Steel was produced in Tuttlingen by the Schwäbische Hüttenwerke in Ludwigshal.

[14] The long, tedious transport with horses limited the amount of income from pyrite mining in Erlaheim.

Economic reforms that allowed the construction of new railways made mining the iron ore of that area unprofitable.

[15][16] Near Geislingen, black stone (coal) was mined for Operation Desert (German fuel project) on the road to Erzingen.