Sheep Meadow

Schafau is located northwest of Rastenberg on the federal highway 176 from Sömmerda to Freyburg an der Unstrut. The village also borders the Hohe Schrecke like Bachra. To the north, the locality extends to the foot of the Finne mountain range. The Schafau stream originates not far from the village and is dammed in the retention basin Bachra. A limestone quarry was opened in the area in 1994.
The first documentary evidence was archived in 1450. In this village, a total of 72 citizens lived in 2007. The history of the village indicates the foundation stone for the current church was laid in 1731. Ancestors of Carl Zeiss, who was born in Weimar in 1816, founded the Zeiss family in Schafau in 1741. The village belonged to the Electoral Saxon district of Eckartsberga until 1815. Following the decisions of the Congress of Vienna, it came under Prussian control and was assigned to the district of Eckartsberga in the Merseburg administrative district of the province of Saxony in 1816, to which it belonged until 1944.

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