The community has the following Gemarkungen (traditional rural cadastral areas) and Ortsteile: Gräfendorf, Michelau an der Saale, Schonderfeld, Weickersgrüben, Wolfsmünster.

In Gräfendorf the Barons of Thüngen and the Juliusspital in Würzburg – a hospital foundation that still exists today – shared the lordship.

In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the current community came into being with the Gemeindeedikt (“Municipal Edict”) of 1818.

According to official statistics, there were 139 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls working in producing businesses in 1998.

Gräfendorf, as well as outlying Wolfsmünster, Michelau and Weickersgrüben, lies on the Fränkische Saaletalbahn (railway) and is served hourly (with the odd gap) by the Erfurter Bahn, a railway service owned and operated by the City of Erfurt, using modern Unterfranken-Shuttle trainsets.