Schondorf is a climatic spa village. It is located about 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Munich and about 40 kilometres (25 miles) southeast of Augsburg on the western shore of lake Ammersee in the district of Landsberg am Lech.

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 area of the municipality is 6.56 km² (2.53 sq mi). The maximum amount of extension in the north-south direction is 4 km (2.5 mi) and west-east direction 2.5 km (1.6 mi).

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 has two subdivisions: Oberschondorf on the western and upper side and Unterschondorf on the eastern and lower side.

The first finds of human settlement extending to the hallstatt culture. (back to 750-450 BC). To suggest that in the municipality found 14 burial mounds. In the area of present-day communal bathing site in 1924, a 20 m × 7.5 m (21.9 yd × 8.2 yd) wide bathing area of a Roman villa from the 3rd century AD excavated. Further traces of a settlement can be found from the period after the Roman Empire from the period 500-700 AD (skeletons and grave goods with a lance).

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. This property was in course of time lost. Subsequently there was a local Nobility (German: derer von Schondorf). These built Jacob's Church in 1150. In Oberschondorf, the present church in 1284 by the Bavarian duke to the Dießen Abby was given.

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