Zeulenroda-Triebes is situated in the south of Greiz in the mountains of the Thuringian Slate Mountains (Thüringer Schiefergebirge), on the border with Saxonia.
In 1949 his son, Rudolf Bauerfeind, left Zeulenroda because of the policy of nationalisation in East Germany and rebuilt the company in western Germany, first in Darmstadt-Eberstadt and then in Kempen.
The villages Cossengrün, Hohndorf and Schönbach became part of the town Greiz, the villages Arnsgrün, Bernsgrün and Pöllwitz became part of the town Zeulenroda-Triebes.