Siebenlehn is located about 3 km (1.9 mi) south of Nossen, on the eastern edge of Zellwald forest and west of Freiberger Mulde river.

The original Waldhufendorf was founded in the middle of the 12th century during the eastward expansion of the Holy Roman Empire.

[3] After World War II about 500 German deportees and refugees came to Siebenlehn, increasing the number of inhabitants temporarily to 2860.

Financial difficulties related to overspending on the establishment of a business park caused the heavily indebted town Siebenlehn to join the municipality of Großschirma.

The principal sights of the town include the market square, the church which was built in 1774/1775 with its 46 m (151 ft) tall tower, the motorway bridge which – with a height of 70 m (230 ft) above the mean level of Freiberger Mulde river – once was the highest of its kind in Europe, and the water tower.

In the Middle Ages the bakers of wheat bread and the butchers of Siebenlehn gained a good reputation outside the town limits.

Siebenlehn bakers are credited in early modern sources with the invention of Stollen, a famous Christmas specialty that was mentioned as a present to the Amtmann of Nossen.

During the Thirty Years' War they supplied the town of Meißen which was besieged by Swedish troops.