The former parish village is best known for its baroque St. Ulrich's Church and the northern industrial park, which is largely located on Amendingen's land.

The valley floor to the east of the community consists of alpine soil[1] and underlying peat deposits, occasionally mixed with gravel and gray-black sand.

During the Roman Empire, the road from Kempten (Allgäu) (Cambodunum) to Kellmünz (Caelius Mons) probably ran through the Amendingen district.

[2] In the south of the present commune, a retired veteran probably built a manor house, a so-called villa rustica.

The land of the oldest village originally included parts of the Memminger Ach and the fields reclaimed from the Roman estate.

The Chronicon ottenburanum, a collection of copies of older documents from around 1180, mentions the village of Amendingen with all its possessions (and the people belonging to it) - villam Oumintingen cum pertinentiis suis - as an endowment in the deed of foundation of Ottobeuren Abbey.

[5][6] The early 12th century copy mentions Amendingen as oppidum Oumintingen cum vico suo Trunkenesperc.

The earliest surviving written mention of Amendingen is in the Vita of St. Ulrich, written by the Augsburg cathedral provost Gerhard in 982/992, who, on his return journey from Upper Swabian Obersulmetingen to Augsburg in May 973, met with monks from the nearby monastery in Amendingen to inform them of the imperial privilege of a free abbacy.

[7] Around 1200, Amendingen passed into the hands of the Knights of Eisenburg, who had taken over the military duties in the area from the Dukes of Swabia and thus became the economic center of this dominion.

[11] Twenty-one years later, in 1601, the Ulm citizen and patrician Hans Eitel Neubronner acquired the entire Eisenburg estate.

During the Reformation, the first Jews also settled in Amendingen and other places in the Eisenburg dominion, as the imperial cities did not provide them with housing.

Since many of the Jews were involved in trade, there were soon minor disputes and several lawsuits between the city of Memmingen and Sebastian von Berwang as the owner of the Eisenburg dominion.

The most important consequence of the war was that on July 16, 1642, the Abbey of Rot sold the patronage right with the tithe and other properties in Amendingen to the Buxheim Charterhouse.

The Vlasov armymade up of Soviet prisoners of war and "willing helpers" recruited by Heinrich Himmler and stationed at the Heuberg camp on the Swabian Alps, passed through Amendingen on its retreat.

During heavy air raids on the Memmingerberg airbase and railroad facilities in Memmingen on April 20, 1945, about 30 bombs fell on the Amendingen area.

In the early afternoon, Mayor Dirr and local group leader Göppel surrendered the village without a fight.

There was one fatality when the owner of the mayor's office, located in the Villa Stetter, was unable to open the locked door in time and was hit by shots fired by an American soldier to blow up the castle.

A small staff was left in the village to maintain peace and order and to enforce the interests of the American military government.

[16] After 41 years of uninterrupted service, Mayor Johann Dirr was removed from office by the Americans because of his party affiliation.

290 refugees and displaced persons came to Amendingen from the former German territories in the East, especially from the area of Jägerndorf (Krnov) in the Sudetenland.

However, several years passed before the groundbreaking ceremony in March 2017, and a site on Donaustrasse near the northern industrial area was chosen as the new location.

Another church belongs to the Priestly Society of St. Pius X. from the 16th century to 2018 * Estimate The former municipal council consisted of eight councilors, the mayor, and his deputy.

The task of the citizens' committee was to monitor the adherence to the written and oral concessions made by the city during the involuntary incorporation into Memmingen in a spirit of objective cooperation.

The war memorial with St. George on horseback on a large pedestal, a work of the sculptor Daumiller from Memmingen, was erected in 1923 by the Veterans' Association on the St. Ulrich square.

[10] The tavern, now the Gastwirtschaft zum Adler, a simple saddle-roofed house with a wrought-iron cantilever with stylized vines and flowers from the second half of the 18th century, was both an inn and a manor brewery, which had to supply the lordship of Eisenburg and the surrounding villages with beer.

In 2002, the board of directors decided to establish the Amendingen Youth Music Association to further promote young musicians.

Buzil, a globally active company for cleaning agents, is also based in the industrial estate, as is Goldhofer Inc. from Amendingen, the world's leading manufacturer of special transportation vehicles.

The Amendingen Elementary School became nationally known in 1979 when a teacher slapped a student and the Bavarian Supreme Court, citing common law, tolerated it.

A postcard reproduction of his painting The Mountain Spirit served the writer J. R. R. Tolkien as inspiration for the wizard Gandalf in the novel The Lord of the Rings.

Four-time international footballer Franz "Bulle" Roth (* 1946), who played for FC Bayern Munich from 1966 to 1978, is also from Amendingen.