The first written mention of Hirrlingen was on a document from the
All Saints Monastery in
Schaffhausen written in the year 1091. Around 1100, the
Lords of Hirrlingen first appeared in historical sources. They lived and owned property or rights in and around Hirrlingen in the
Duchy of Swabia. After the Lords of Hirrlingen went extinct, their property in Hirrlingen went to the
Counts of Hohenberg in the 13th century who in turn enfeoffed the
Lords of Ow. Through acquisitions made in the 15th and 16th century, the Ow established local lordship over Hirrlingen, which as a manor was part of the souvereignty of
Further Austria. In 1557/1558, the Lords of Ow built the Hirrlingen castle, the St. Martin Church in 1606 and a St.-Sebastianus Brotherhood in the 18th century. In the 14th century, a women's monastery of the
Dominican Order developed out of a community of religious women. The
Bebenhausen Abbey also held some property in Hirrlingen for some time. In 1709, the line of the Lords of Hirrlingen died out. Between 1749 and 1790, the Counts of
Attems ruled over Hirrlingen. In 1789, the Dominican Monastrary was secularized. In 1805, Hirrlingen went to the Electorate of
Württemberg, which in 1806 turned into the
Kingdom of Württemberg. When a was implemented in 1810, Hirrlingen was assigned to the so-called, an administrative unit. In 1821, the castle was sold to the Municipality of Hirrlingen and was subsequently used as a town hall. During the district reform in Württemberg in the Nazi era, the municipality became part of the district of Tübingen in 1938. In 1945, the village became part of the French occupation zone and thus came to the newly founded state of
Württemberg-Hohenzollern, which merged with the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952. == Culture and Sights ==