Nußdorf consists of 23 boroughs and is a tourist destination in the Inn Valley between the Heuberg Wendelstein mountains on the Tyrol border.

Nußdorf is first recorded in 788 AD in a source referring to the "ecclesia Nuzdorf" (Latin for 'Nuzdorf church') and its associated estate.

[3] On 15 May 1097 a document records that Emperor Henry IV made a stopover in Nußdorf on his way from Verona to Regensburg.

[4][5] The local noble family of Clammenstein is mentioned in documents from the 12th century onwards as residing at the castles of Klammenstein and Ramsau.

Nußdorf has instituted a partnership with the French municipality Camblanes-et-Meynac since 1975, which consists of mutual visits and, since 2003, an annual youth exchange.