Settlement before the local establishment The first finds of human settlement extending to the
hallstatt culture. (back to 750-450 BC). To suggest that in the municipality found 14 burial mounds. In the area of present-day communal bathing site in 1924, a 20 m × 7.5 m (21.9 yd × 8.2 yd) wide bathing area of a Roman villa from the 3rd century AD excavated. Further traces of a settlement can be found from the period after the
Roman Empire from the period 500-700 AD (skeletons and grave goods with a lance).
The first written reference till High Middle Ages Schondorf was first mentioned in 751 as a count Engildeo from the noble family of Huosi including its goods delivered in "Scondorf" the
Benediktbeuern Abbey. This property was in course of time lost. Subsequently, there was a local Nobility (). These built Jacob's Church in 1150. In Oberschondorf, the present church in 1284 by the Bavarian duke to the Dießen Abby was given.
High Middle Ages till 1818 Only since the High Middle Ages a distinction was made between Ober- and Unterschondorf. Each farm in Oberschondorf belonged to the Andechs Abbey. Each half was owned by Adelheid von Pergen and the other half by Kunigunde von Schondorf-Hechenwang. Unterschondorf at the time was owned by the Earl of Greifenberg. Through the establishment of the
Benedictine monastery Andechs, in Unterschondorf changed the ownership to
Ernest, Duke of Bavaria and
Albert III, Duke of Bavaria. In the 15th century, Ober- and Unterschondorf was a part of the "Hofmark Greifenberg". 1507 bought the Hofmark Erhard von Perfall. As the number of inhabitants in Oberschondorf increases steadily, built provost Johannes Zallinger a new church. This church was made 1499 completed and was dedicated to
St. Martin of Tours. The weekly mass were held by the "Gesellpriester" from Utting. Since this is not the Oberschondorf citizens promised, it has made efforts to their own priest. The Sigel Official accounts of the
Diocesan Augsburg show Wolfgang Ostler in 1520 as the first Catholic priest. During the
Thirty Years' War in 1628 and 1629 pulled the
plague more than Half of the inhabitants of Schondorf. In 1633
Swedish troops marched along the western shore of the Ammersee Lake and plundered probably Schondorf. Towards the end of the 17th century was the parish church in Oberschondorf and the St. Jacob Church in Unterschondorf undergo a renovation. This was particularly the choir altar, the pulpit and the seating. Through the
secularization in 1803, the Bavarian state was the landlord in Schondorf. In the course of administrative reform in the
Kingdom of Bavaria was created with the municipal
edict of 1818 the municipalities Oberschondorf and Unterschondorf.
1818–1970 In the time of the
German Revolution of 1848 Schondorf was incorporated within the jurisdiction of the "Landsberg district court" (). The opening of the Ammersee Railway was on 30 June 1898. Schondorf was present, the southern terminus. The final gap to
Dießen am Ammersee was on 24 December 1898. The station was built on the subdivision border between Ober- and Unterschondorf, and even then bore the name "Schondorf". The station building here was only made of corrugated iron huts. A wooden building was only about to 1902nd. 1909 was the first screw steamer called "Schondorf" on the Ammersee launching. The ship had 80 HP (58 KW) and could carry 120 people. It was completed in 1956 out of service. In 1912 the two villages have been connected to the electrical power grid. With the division
gymnastics the local sports club (TSV 1920 Schondorf) was established by 27 founding members in 1920. The station building was built in 1934 fundamentally new. The technical facilities that were previously in the open, got one enclosure. These have not yet installed additional electrical installations that were not exposed to the rain. During the Second World War, the two municipalities were not even affected. In April 1945, American troops moved into Schondorf. It followed a three-week occupation by French troops. The
German economic miracle was reflected in the Schondorf-based communities. There were not only improved the road conditions, but also promoted the expansion of water supply and construction of housing for refugees and German displaced persons. In 1961, the second ship named "Schondorf" with 225 HP (195 KW) was put into service.
1818–1970 in Oberschondorf The size of the agricultural area in the upper subdivision was twice as large the lower subdivision. There were mainly farms with high agricultural capacity.. The mid-1830s opened the first restaurant (Sailer). In the
First World War had some bells of St. Anne Church be made to serve the war effort. In 1925 the company Hirt was able to pour in
Kempten shepherd through donations from the public and through a foundation of three new bells. But back in 1942 had four bells for the production of shells are given.
1818–1970 in Unterschondorf The lower subdivision was inhabited by fishermen and small farmers. These were not economically as strong as in the upper subdivision. Only with development of the tourist accommodation at beginning of the 20th century, the situation improved the situation of the inhabitants of Unterschondorf. Founded in 1876, the volunteer fire department. On 14 September 1905 founded the evangelical pastor Julius Lohmann, the South German boarding school (), today call
Stiftung Landheim Schondorf. On 5 January 1919, a storm surge occurred on the Ammersee. This tore numerous pontoons. Similarly, broken-reed was thrown over the sea wall. In the 1920s and 1930s, Toni Ruhr built in the waterfront in the south of the dock. With the
seizure of the Nazis, the Unterschondorf-based Joachim von Moltke took over the mayor's office, but was soon out district leader of the district of Landsberg am Lech. After the war the American troops seized some houses at the Ammersee. In the boarding school has been set up for a short time a hospital for
displaced persons. The repair of the waterfront in 1950 was sore now expanded to the north. In Unterschondorf a new parish church (Heilig Kreuz) was built in 1954.
Since 1970 On 1 January 1970 the independent municipalities were merged. For this purpose, a new town hall in the new center of the municipality was built. The old halls of Ober- an Unterschondorf already been converted into social housing. It was created by a
regulation of the Government of Upper Bavaria from 1 May 1978, the municipal association Schondorf am Ammersee (). Thus, the administrations of the autonomous communities continue to exist Schondorf, Greifenberg Eching and have been combined. The seat of the administration is Schondorf. On the evening of 15 September 1981, was the abduction of the ten-year pupil Ursula Herrmann. She was on the way from her grandmother in Schondorf to Eching am Ammersee. The child was in a 72 cm × 60 cm × 139 cm (28in × 24in × 66in) in the forest "Weingarten" locked and buried. Since the ventilation tube was too long, the girl suffocated after several hours. It has demanded a ransom of two million DM (1.02 million euros), whose transfer it never came. The body was found on 4 October 1982. The prosecutor started the investigation. The investigation led in May 2008 on the arrest of a 58-year-old man in
Kappeln. In an evidence of this process was on 25 March 2010 convicted of kidnapping resulting in death to life imprisonment. As a result of heavy rainfall (up to 180 L/m2) exceeded the Ammersee in the
Pentecostal floods of 1999 its average water level about two meters. The promenade and the adjoining lake road were flooded. In August 2005, the tracks at the station Schondorf was rebuilt. Since then, there are no plant and goods tracks. In 2010, there was an energy modernization of the City Hall. It could be an energy savings of 65 percent. The budget for the renovation is in the range of 1.5 million euros. The grant from the economic stimulus package () amounts to approximately 720,100 euros.
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