The roots of the association are in the establishment on 8 August 1858 of the gymnastics club and community fire brigade Turnfeuerwehr Kaufbeuren.

In 1939 they took part in a promotion playoff for the Gauliga Bayern, one of sixteen top-flight divisions created in the 1933 re-organization of German football under the Third Reich.

The team also made an appearance in 1941 in the preliminary round of play for the Tschammer-Pokal, predecessor of today's DFB-Pokal (German Cup), that ended in a 0–4 defeat to Bayern Munich.

The side, for the most part, played in the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben (VI), where it spent a record 22 out of 24 possible seasons from the leagues interception in 1988 to its disbanding in 2012.

Within Kaufbeuren this role has been taken up by BSK Olympia Neugablonz, a suburban club formed after World War II by German refugees from the city of Gablonz (now Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic).