[citation needed] Formerly it was referred to as the Mount Doctus, due to the scholarliness of the meteorological research taking place at its peak.

The climate is oceanic (Köppen: Cfb; Trewartha: Dclo), affected by altitude and proximity to the Alps (especially in precipitation).

From 1604 until the secularization in 1803, the augustinian canons regulars in charge of the cloister Rottenbuch also supervised the pilgrimage to the Hohen Peißenberg.

The large ceiling fresco by Matthäus Günther inside the chapel of Mercy also depicts the committal of the pilgrimage site to the cloister Rottenbuch.

[9] In lieu of the bavarian administrative reform, the community edict gave rise to the local centres as we now know them.

Hohenpeißenberg belonged to the reformation of Munich and to the district of Schongau which in turn is part of the electorate of Bavaria.

State-owned mining began on May 8, 1837 with the inset of the so-called Hauptstollen (main adit) in the area of Brandach, whereby the initial sinking of the Unterbauschacht (Unterbau shaft) took place from the first of July 1889 onwards.

In 1978 a large part of the former community of Ammerhöfe was added to the area of Hohenpeißenberg, because of the restructuring of the administrative district of Weilheim-Schongau of April 12, 1976.