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The Jewish cemetery northwest of Freudental, which still exists today, was established in 1811 after the previous cemetery, existing since 1723, in the Alleenfeld had to be abandoned. On the grounds of the cemetery located north of Königstraße, King Friedrich had a pheasantry built in 1811. The second Jewish cemetery, located on Bönnigheim territory, comprises 460 graves. The Jews of the community were buried here until 1941.

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Adjacent to a pilgrimage chapel "Zu unserer lieben Frau" (Our Lady), already existing in 1449 on the "Frauenberg," a ridge southwest of Bönnigheim, the monastery was founded in 1477 by resolution of the Provincial Chapter in Bamberg as a Franciscan Observant Cella on the fiefdom of Archbishop Dietrich of Mainz. The initiative for this may have originated from a visitation of the monasteries in Heilbronn and Leonberg conducted the previous year by Vicar Johannes Philippi. It is likely that the Cella, planned not as a convent but as a "residence," was at least initially dependent on the convent in Heilbronn. The monastery family comprised around twelve brothers; their names between 1486 and 1543 are recorded in the chapter tablets and an obituary. The superiors initially called themselves vicars, possibly because of their dependence on Heilbronn, and from 1501 onward, they were called "presidents." The monastery was run by the Franciscan provincial chapter of Strasbourg from 1478 to 1543. With the introduction of the Reformation following the Peasants' War in 1525, the monastery's religious life was restricted, and its continued existence was limited to the lifetime of the monks present. In 1540, the last monk left the monastery. Two years later, Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz handed the abandoned complex over to the care of the city. The monastery fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1792. Few fragments of architecture and furnishings have survived. A brief archaeological investigation, including surveying of the preserved foundations, was carried out during the land consolidation of 1974/76. The foundations of the choir, now in an idyllic location, were consolidated and are accessible.

The new cemetery was established on Bönnigheim's land at the foot of the Seeberg. Its secluded location at the edge of the forest reflects both the religious requirement that Jewish burials be located extra muros (extra muros) and the tendency toward exclusion within the Christian majority. Originally, it only encompassed the area to the right of the present entrance gate. The oldest gravestone is that of Pesle Ballenberg, who died on December 4, 1811. The cemetery was primarily occupied from back to front, with women and men initially buried in separate rows. All older gravestones are made of sandstone, mostly flat steles. Their sole, but frequent, decoration is rounded arches. The model for the Mosaic tablets of the commandments is obvious. Gradually, the rounded arches were replaced by gables and cornices. The inscriptions were initially almost entirely in Hebrew. It wasn't until the mid-19th century that stones with a German inscription on the reverse, in addition to the Hebrew front, became more common. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, steles with bilingual fronts became more common. Gravestones with purely German inscriptions remained rare even in the 20th century. While the Freudental Cemetery thus documents the Jewish community's rapprochement with its non-Jewish surroundings, it also demonstrates the religious conservatism that characterized Freudental's Jews until the community's extermination by the Nazis.

The Vordere or Gemminger Winery was built between 1772 and 1773 by the Lords of Gemmingen. At that time, Erligheim was a village of Ganerb and belonged to the Lords of Gemmingen, Neipperg, Sachsenheim, and Liebenstein. The part containing the winery belonged to the Gemmingen district. The winery was in use until 1952 and is now a community center.

Erligheim's Protestant St. John's Church was built in 1480 to enlarge a smaller chapel first mentioned in 1291. The church received its present form in 1740.

The monastery was run by the Franciscan provincial chapter of Strasbourg from 1478 to 1543. With the introduction of the Reformation following the Peasants' War in 1525, the monastery's religious life was restricted, and its continued existence was limited to the lifetime of the monks present. In 1540, the last monk left the monastery. Two years later, Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz handed the abandoned complex over to the city's care. The monastery fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1792. Few fragments of its architecture and furnishings have survived.