Subdivisions
The munisipality consists of the following districts. * Aschhausen * Berlichingen * Bieringen * Schöntal Abbey * Marlach * Oberkessach * Sindeldorf * Westernhausen * WinzenhofenHistory
Following the dissolution of Schöntal Abbey in 1802, its constituent towns were governed by the Kingdom of Württemberg as they had existed under the monastery. In 1810–11, this district was dissolved and its area given to the , , and . In 1938, these were all given to the Künzelsau district of the Free People's State of Württemberg. With the , Schöntal and its old '' Ortsteile'' have been assigned to the Hohenlohe district. The Bundesautobahn 81, running through Schöntal, began operation in 1974.Geography
The municipality (''Coat of arms
The municipal coat of arms for Schöntal displays an armored fist in silver and a crosier in gold crossed diagonally over a green field but behind the ''Zisterzienserbalken'', a checkerboard-pattern red-and-white bar associated with the Cistercian Order. This pattern was issued by the Hohenlohe district government on 19 September 1978, but evolved from renditions of a pattern in 1972 that omitted the armored hand, a reference to Götz von Berlichingen, who is buried in Schöntal. The crosier and the bar references the Cistercians, whose iconography, most prominently Schöntal Abbey's church, had been used to identify Schöntal in postage stamps in the past.References
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