 In 1806, the Degenfeld family's fiefdom of Rechberghausen and the "Klosteramt" (an administrative division centering on the estates of a dissolved monastery) of Adelberg were abolished and the lands transferred to the new "Oberamt" of Göppingen, which in 1934 was renamed as a "Kreis", and in 1938 as an enlarged "Landkreis".In 1935, the hamlet of Niederwälden was transferred from the municipality of Holzhausen to that of Wangen.As part of administrative reforms in Baden-Württemberg, the formerly independent municipality of Oberwälden was incorporated into Wangen on 1 July 1971.