The municipality is located in the south-western part of Upper Franconia, in Franconian Switzerland.

The town of Pretzfeld lies in the west of the municipality, near the confluence of the Trubach and the Wiesent.

Due to the warm climate and nutrient-rich soils, there are over 200,000 sweet cherry trees on 1700 ha.

[4] In the municipality there are the breweries Nikl-Bräu in Pretzfeld, Meister in Unterzaunsbach and Penning-Zeißler in Hetzelsdorf.

[4] From the semiconductor laboratory initiated by Walter Schottky in 1946, a plant for power semiconductors emerged , which last operated as the Infineon subsidiary eupec (European Power-Semiconductor and Electronic Company) before it was closed in 2002.