Reckendorf is a community in the district of Bamberg, in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany.

The later knightly estate belonging to the Barons of Wiesenthau passed with Bavaria's mediatization at the time of the border adjustments in 1810 to the Grand Duchy of Würzburg, ruled by Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, with which it eventually passed back to Bavaria in 1814.

[1] The community council is made up of 14 members, listed here by party or voter community affiliation, and also with the number of seats that each holds: According to official statistics, there were 134 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls working in producing businesses, and in trade and transport 16.

There are now still two breweries: Every ten years, the Altweibermühle ("Old Wives' Mill") takes place.

Isaias Wolf Hellman born in Reckendorf on 3 October 1842, Jewish-American financier and philanthropist, a founder of the University of Southern California; with Henry E. Huntington formed the Los Angeles Railway in 1898 and the Pacific Electric Railway in 1901.