Benefeld is part of the municipality of Walsrode in the Lower Saxon Heidekreis district in north Germany.
Its neighbouring villages - clockwise from the north - are Jarlingen, Bommelsen, Kroge, Bomlitz, Uetzingen and Hünzingen (all part of the town of Walsrode).
The parish of Benefeld lies on the two largest tributaries of the River Böhme, the Bomlitz to the east and the Warnau to the west.
These settlements were built after 1935, as part of the expansion of the Bomlitz explosives industry (forerunner of today's Dow Wolff Cellulosics) on the plateau of Lohheide, favourable because of its height above the water table.
Besides being home to Eibia's workers' accommodation, in the fall of 1944 for six weeks, Benefeld was also a satellite of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, with about 750 women.