The earliest signs of a settlement in Oberlunkhofen are scattered
Bronze Age items. In Schalchmatthau there is the foundation of a rectangular
Roman era farm with a
portico and flanked by two wings. Also from the Roman era, there is a 1st–3rd century villa and a bathhouse with heated rooms. Near the villa, an
Alemanni graveyard was also discovered. During initial excavation, the wall remains were uncovered in 1897–98. Then, between 1975 and 1980 the wall ruins were preserved. The modern village of Oberlunkhofen is first mentioned in the 9th century as
Lunchunft though this record comes from an 11th-century copy of the original, older document. In 1232 it was mentioned as
Lunchuft and in 1309 as
obern Lunchuft. There was a castle near the village, but no surviving records mention it. It was presumably destroyed in 1386. The village was owned by
St. Leodegar in Lucerne which was under the jurisdiction of
Murbach Abbey and was sold in 1291 to the
House of Habsburg. In the early 14th century is a center of the Habsburg region of
Kelleramt. The rights to the
low justice and the
vogtei fell on
Bremgarten in 1414. In 1415, the rights to high justice went to
Zurich. In 1797 Bremgarten sold the village to the other four municipalities of the
Kelleramt. In 1798 it became part of the short-lived
Helvetic Republic Canton of Baden. St. Leodegar, the
parish church of the
Kelleramt, was first mentioned in 1185. The church was under the jurisdiction of St. Leodegar in Lucerne and then Murbach Abbey. In 1291 it went to the Habsburgs, and in 1403 was awarded
Muri Abbey which held it until 1841. The parish included Oberlunkhofen,
Unterlunkhofen,
Arni,
Islisberg and
Rottenschwil. The current parish church was built in 1685 on the site of a 1515 church building. The oldest church building on that site probably dates from the 10th century. Until the 20th century the major industries were agriculture and
viticulture. In 1920 the bus line Oberlunkhofen-
Jonen-
Affoltern am Albis opened. Then in 1930 the line
Birmenstorf-Oberlunkhofen opened. This line expanded in 1966 Zurich-
Wiedikon. The increase in population after 1980 is due people moving away from the Zurich
agglomeration. ==Geography==