The Hauptsmoorwald stretches all the way to Bamberg and parts of it are used by the US Army stationed there as a training area.

The community furthermore has these outlying centres, each given here with its own population figure: The community also has 10 traditional rural land units, known in German as Gemarkungen, named Amlingstadt, Geisfeld, Leesten, Mistendorf, Roßdorf am Forst, Strullendorf, Wernsdorf, Zeegendorf, Geisberger Forst and Hauptsmoor, eight of which (all but the last two, which are wilderness areas) have the same names as eight of the constituent communities (it is traditional for a Gemarkung to be named after a town or village lying nearby).

[4] The Nuremberg patrician family Tockler owned the Tocklerhof in Strullendorf until the 16th century.

The community council is made up of 20 members, listed here by party or voter community affiliation, and also with the number of seats that each holds: In 1999, municipal tax revenue, converted to euros, amounted to €4,694,000 of which business taxes (net) amounted to €1,654,000.

According to official statistics, there were 900 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls working in producing businesses, and in trade and transport none.