Immenstadt

Immenstadt lies at the northern edge of the Allgäu Alps. Recorded as Immendorf in 1275, it received the rights of the town of Lindau and a weekly market from Emperor Charles IV in 1360. The counts of Montfort developed it as a residence beneath their castle of Rothenfels. In 1407 the town resisted a siege by Appenzell farmers.

Immenstadt withstood another siege during the Peasants' War in 1525. Its prosperity rested on the salt road from Tyrol to Lake Constance and the linen trade, but the Thirty Years' War and plague took a heavy toll. In 1663 it became the residence of the counts of Königsegg-Rothenfels. A fire damaged the town in 1805, the year it passed from Austria to Bavaria. In 1809 armed farmers gathered here during the rising against Bavarian and Napoleonic rule.