Wiesensteig is located in the upper Fils valley in 575–750 meters altitude in Göppingen (district).

To Wiesensteig belongs the town of Wiesensteig, the courtyards Bläsiberg, Eckhöfe, Heidental, Reußenstein and Ziegelhof and the houses Lämmerbuckel, Papiermühle and the dialed towns Michelnbuch and Schafhaus [3] Adjacent municipalities are Gruibingen in the north, Mühlhausen im Täle in the northeast, Drackenstein in the east, Hohenstadt in the south east, Westerheim (Alb-Donau-Kreis) in the south, Römerstein (Reutlingen (district)) in the southwest, Lenningen in the west, and Neidlingen (both Esslingen (district)) in the northwest.

Count Ulrich XVII of Helfenstein (1524-1570) and his brother Sebastian († 1564) introduced in 1555 the Lutheran confession in Wiesensteig.

1562/63 in the rule Wiesensteig a great witch-hunt took place in which at least 63 women and men were executed.

Through a land swap the town came in 1806 to the Kingdom of Württemberg and became the seat of Oberamt Wiesensteig.