Litzendorf and most of its outlying centres lie in the Ellern Valley, which is surrounded by wooded heights with the Bamberg district's two highest elevations, the Geisberg (585 m) and the Stammberg (560 m).

In Merovingian and Carolingian times, when the villages, which were likely of Frankish and Slavic origin, arose, the Ellern Valley was still heavily wooded.

The name Litzendorf first cropped up in 1129 in a document from Bishop of Bamberg Otto, which mentions an Otgoz von Licindorf.

The community council is made up of 21 members, listed here by party or voter community affiliation, and also with the number of seats that each holds: (as of election on 3 March 2002) Litzendorf's arms might heraldically be described thus: Party per pale Or and azure, Or a lion rampant sable armed and langued gules, thereover a bendlet argent, azure a helm argent with nasal dexter.

The Sängerehrenmal for the dead and fallen of the Franconian Sängerbund ("Singers’ League") was built in 1963 on a plot of higher ground above Melkendorf.

The wrought iron altar wing bears the Latin inscription Mortui vivimus – "We, the dead, live".

He wanted something special, and therefore he had the Bamberg court master builder Johann Dientzenhofer add a suitable nave onto the choir tower.