It is in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and a member of the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Lisberg, lying in the Steigerwald (forest).

Lisberg’s main and namesake centre is the biggest of its Ortsteile, although Trabelsdorf is not much smaller.

The palatial residence (Schloss) in the outlying centre of Trabelsdorf was acquired in 1664 by the Marshals of Ostheim and in 1700 it was newly built.

South of Lisberg can be found a Jewish graveyard on a plot of higher ground with some 130 gravestones.

Lisberg is regularly the venue for the so-called Donnersbergklassiker (“Thunder Mountain Classic”), a cycling race around the Steigerwald (forest).