In 1574 the barons of Stain von Rechtenstein zu Niederstotzingen acquired the village.

In a criminal trial before the Memmingen Regional Court in 1948, seven people were sentenced to prison for this reason.

[3] Many Jewish citizens moved to larger cities where they felt more secure in anonymity or emigrated abroad.

[5] On 1 May 1978, the communities of Autenried, Deubach and Rieden an der Kötz followed in the course of the territorial reform.

Another cultural asset in Ichenhausen is the former synagogue, which served as a fire station after the Second World War and was converted into a "House of Encounter" in the late 1980s.