The community is part of the Altmühlalb natural area. The geographical center of Bavaria is about 500 m east of the town of Kipfenberg ⊙. 2000 years ago, the Roman border wall Limes, now a World Heritage Site, ran through the town center.
Until the 19th century
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A crouched grave from the period between 1800 and 1200 BC was found in the area of the town. The Roman border wall Limes crossed the Altmühl valley there. In the Böhming part of the community there was a Roman numerus fort, destroyed by the Alemanni in 232/33 and discovered and excavated in 1898.
A Germanic district castle was founded on the plateau of the Michelsberg around 330.[5](Burgstall Michaelsberg) Later, the Michael's Church, which now only exists in its foundations, was built there. A hermit's cell was built on it in 1756, which, now abandoned, was demolished in 1819.
The so-called warrior's grave of Kemathen, which was discovered in 1990 during road construction work in the Kemathen district, dates from around 420 and contains Germanic and Roman grave goods.[6]
A row of graves with more than 104 burials from the 4th to 7th centuries was excavated near the former Kipfenberg train station in 1901.
Between 1183 and 1188, a church was consecrated in Böhming by the Eichstätt bishop Otto (the current church in Böhming is a new building from the mid-15th century); in 1186, Pope Urban III confirmed the Eichstätt cathedral chapter's ownership of "Bemingen". Around 1198, local nobles from "Pemmingen" appeared in documents.
Kipfenberg was first mentioned in a document in 1266; a local nobleman named Rudegus de Kipphenberg acted as a witness in a court case. The castle and the town were sold to the Bishopric of Eichstätt in 1301. In 1352, Kipfenberg became a market town; at the same time, the town, previously a branch of Gelbelsee, became an independent parish. In the mid-15th century, the parish church was still the present-day Chapel of St. George; The cemetery, which was abandoned in 1859, was moved there in 1616 from Försterstrasse and thus outside the town walls. The first evidence of a school in Kipfenberg dates back to 1541, when it was run as a Latin school by the local priest Leonhard Kraus. From 1500, Kipfenberg was part of the Franconian Imperial Circle. In 1627, the current parish church, built in the second half of the 15th century, was re-consecrated after three years of reconstruction. From 1632 to 1634, the plague raged in the town, which was devastated by the Swedes in 1634.
From 1803 to 1805, Kipfenberg belonged to the Principality of Salzburg-Tuscany, which had been newly formed following secularization. After its abolition, the town fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806. In 1808, the Kipfenberg district became part of the Altmühlkreis, and in 1827, the Regenkreis. Kipfenberg was part of Middle Franconia from 1837. In 1869, a hospital was built (now a neurological clinic). In 1898, the Eichstätt–Kinding local railway was opened as a narrow-gauge railway; later converted to standard gauge. It was abandoned in the 1970s.