Zapfendorf is a municipality with market rights in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg in Bavaria, Germany with roughly 5,000 inhabitants.

The community furthermore has these outlying centres, each given here with its own population figure: The place was already settled quite early on, as witnessed by finds from the Bronze Age.

The original overlords were the Meranians, who were followed by the Truhendingens, who in turn sold the community in 1390 to the High Monastery at Bamberg.

In 1972, the communities of Lauf, Oberleiterbach, Kirchschletten, Sassendorf, Reuthlos, Roth and Oberoberndorf were amalgamated with Zapfendorf, as was Unterleiterbach in 1978.

Within Zapfendorf's municipal limits, one brewery may still be found, the Brauerei Hennemann in the outlying centre of Unterleiterbach.