As the place is on the edge of Lake Ammersee, is the maximum height difference in the municipality area is 70 metres (77 yards).

The neighboring municipalities of Schondorf are: Greifenberg in the north, Eching am Ammersee in the north-east, Utting in the south and Windach in the west.

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.

Subsequently, there was a local Nobility (German: derer von Schondorf).

As the number of inhabitants in Oberschondorf increases steadily, built provost Johannes Zallinger a new church.

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.

The station was built on the subdivision border between Ober- and Unterschondorf, and even then bore the name "Schondorf".

With the division gymnastics the local sports club (TSV 1920 Schondorf) was established by 27 founding members in 1920.

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.

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.

On 14 September 1905 founded the evangelical pastor Julius Lohmann, the South German boarding school (German: Süddeutsche Landerziehungsheim), today call Stiftung Landheim Schondorf.

In the boarding school has been set up for a short time a hospital for displaced persons.

Thus, the administrations of the autonomous communities continue to exist Schondorf, Greifenberg Eching and have been combined.

In an evidence of this process was on 25 March 2010 convicted of kidnapping resulting in death to life imprisonment.

[3] 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 grant from the economic stimulus package (German: Konjunkturpaket II) amounts to approximately 720,100 euros.

The former parish church of St. Anna on the hill in the north of the municipality is already clearly visible from distance.

The local sports club (TSV 1920 Schondorf) consists of eight departments (ice stock sport, Soccer for youth, Soccer for Seniors, Skigymnastik, Taekwondo, Tennis, Table tennis, Gymnastics/Track and field, Volleyball) with 1,300 members.

On the Ammersee ships of the "Bayerische Seenschifffahrt" sail to Stegen, Herrsching and Dießen in travel direction.

In addition to the high school education, participation in craft, sporting and musical workshops is mandatory.

In 1998 there were no social welfare workers at the workplace according to official statistics in the industrial sector 230 and in trade and transport.