The village of Eichenhausen is nestled between hills and meadows and used to be geographically divided into two parts in the minds of the inhabitants. The upper village with the castle and castle courtyard and the lower village.

Eichenhausen belongs to the municipality of Wülfershausen an der Saale (officially: Wülfershausen a.d.Saale), which is in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld and a member of the administrative community of Saal an der Saale.