Böhmenkirch became a possession of the Electorate of Bavaria in 1806 after it annexed Rechberg and Rothenlöwen, but was in 1810 ceded to the Kingdom of Württemberg. The town was assigned to Oberamt Geislingen [de] until its dissolution in 1938, which resulted in Böhmenkirch being assigned to the district of Göppingen. Böhmenkirch began a period of urban growth after World War II. By the end of the 1960s, there were two new residential areas at the southern edge of the town. An industrial zone was established to the north in the 1970s. Böhmenkirch incorporated the municipalities of Treffelhausen and Schnittlingen in 1973 and Steinenkirch in 1974.[2]
Böhmenkirch has four boroughs (Ortsteile) – Böhmenkirch, Schnittlingen, Steinenkirch, and Treffelhausen – and nine villages: Berg, Hackmesser, Heidhöfe, Lindenhof, Obere Roggenmühle, Ravenstein, Roggensteinhof, Trasenberg, and Ziegelhütte. There are also seven abandoned villages: Boxweiler, Hoebart, Neuhausen, Schönenberg, Siggenweiler, Wintereswanc, Winterreute.[2]
Coat of arms
The municipal coat of arms for Böhmenkirch displays a wooden church, in yellow upon a field of red. The church is a reference to the municipality's name, Böhmenkirch, or "Bohemian church", and became the municipality's representative motif in 1957 on the suggestion from the Central State Archive [de] in Stuttgart. An image of a tree had since 1924 been the municipal motif. The red-yellow tincture was taken from the House of Rechberg's arms. The municipal coat of arms was approved by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, and a corresponding flag for Böhmenkirch issued, on 4 September 1958.[2]
