Within community limits rises the small river Solz, which in Bad Hersfeld empties into the Fulda.

The community's Ortsteile are Schenklengsfeld, Dinkelrode, Erdmannrode, Hilmes, Konrode, Lampertsfeld, Landershausen, Malkomes, Oberlengsfeld, Schenksolz, Unterweisenborn, Wehrshausen, Wippershain and Wüstfeld.

About 800, Schenklengsfeld had its first documentary mention as Lengesfeld in Thuringia in the Hersfeld Abbey’s Breviarium Sancti Lulli (“Saint Lullus’s Summary”) and grew quickly into an Amt centre with a Vogtei, court and Amtmann.

The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results: The community's executive (Gemeindevorstand) is made up of six members, with four seats allotted to the SPD (Hans-Otto Burschel, Uwe Wolf, Dieter Kümmel, Peter Bock), and two to the CDU (Hans Heimeroth, Gunter Rexroth).

The community's arms might be described thus: Argent a linden twig fourché vert with six leaves, in chief dexter a cross patée gules.

The house, built by the Jewish community in 1912, was thoroughly restored between 1996 and 1999 by the specially commissioned Förderkreis Jüdisches Lehrerhaus Schenklengsfeld e.V.

(roughly “Society for the Promotion of the Jewish Teacher’s House of Schenklengsfeld”) and contains, besides two dwellings on the upper floors, a seminar room with a specialized library, as well as an exhibition room with exhibits on religion and history of Schenklengsfeld's Jewish minority, which in 1925 numbered 149 souls, thereby making up about 13% of the population.

All together, 22 of the community's Jewish population, for whom a memorial stone was placed at the graveyard in November 1988, were murdered in the Holocaust.