Barbara von Schlat, a local noblewoman, sold a third of the town in 1410 to Adelberg Abbey, which already controlled nearby properties donated to it by the County of Württemberg.

As a result of the Protestant Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire, Adelberg Abbey was secularized and its holdings seized by the Duchy of Württemberg, which purchased the Liebenstein's portion of Schlat in 1789.

The portions of Schlat were until 1807 divided between a district based out of the old abbey and Oberamt Göppingen [de].

[3] The municipality (Gemeinde) of Schlat is located at the center of the district of Göppingen, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

The coat of arms was awarded along with a municipal flag by the Federal Ministry of the Interior on 30 June 1959.