The German word Reichsland (imperial country, or reich country) can refer to several entities in German constitutional history: the territory of the Holy Roman Empire Alsace-Lorraine as part of the Reichsgebiet (Germany) between 1871 and 1918 a concept for Prussia in reform plans for the Weimar Republic, transforming the member state Prussia into a territory directly controlled by the federal level (Reich) Reichsland Saarland, the Saar territory governed by a German commissioner from 1935 to 1945