The state-recognized climatic spa (Luftkurort) of Frielendorf lies 9 km southwest of Homberg on the edge of the Knüllgebirge (a low mountain range).

(as of municipal elections held on 26 March 2006) Thorsten Vaupel is Frielendorf's mayor.

Frielendorf's civic coat of arms might heraldically be described thus: In gules a crenellated tower argent with two small arrow slits, on a three-knolled hill vert, flanked by two rye stalks Or, before the tower a bill hook sable.

Frielendorf lies on Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 254 (Homberg – Fulda).

The Neuental interchange on Autobahn A 49 (Kassel – Fritzlar – Marburg) is about 11 km away.