What is "herrschaft"

Herrschaft may refer to:

• Herrschaft (sociology), a term for institutionalized authority inducing obedience
• Herrschaft (territory), a feudal territory assigned to a German Herr, Freiherr, or Baron
• Bündner Herrschaft, a region in Graubünden

• , a French industrial band

In the German feudal system, a Herrschaft, equivalent of the French term seigneurie and often translated as lordship in English, was the fiefdom of a lord, who in this area exercised full feudal rights. In the feudal ranking of the Holy Roman Empire it was the lowest rank in which a nobleman could exercise feudal rights. The next higher rank was that of a Freiherr ( baron). His territory was then called a Freiherrschaft ( barony).