Grafschaft is a locality in the municipality Schmallenberg in the High Sauerland District in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

The village has 1097 inhabitants[1] and lies in the east of the municipality of Schmallenberg at a height of around 410 m. The river Grafschaft flows through the village.

Grafschaft borders on the villages of Schmallenberg, Gleidorf, Winkhausen, Almert, Störmecke and Latrop.

In 1072 a Benedictine monastery of Grafschaft was founded in Grafschaft on a site at the foot of the Wilzenberg mountain, by St. Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne.

[2] The village used to belong to the municipality of Grafschaft in Amt Schmallenberg until the end of 1974.