The Lower Saxon Circle (German: Niedersächsischer Reichskreis) was an Imperial Circle of the Holy Roman Empire. It was created in 1500. The Lower Saxon Circle had estates ruled by various foreign powers throughout its time, namely Denmark, Sweden, and Great Britain.
|
Name |
Type |
|
|---|---|---|
 Blankenburg |
County | 1500 - 1599; 1652 - 1806 |
 Bremen |
Duchy | |
 Bremen |
Free City | |
 Brunswick-Grubenhagen |
Duchy | 1500 - 1596; 1652 - 1806 |
| Brunswick-Calenberg |
Duchy | |
 Brunswick-Lüneburg |
Duchy | |
 Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel |
Duchy | |
 Goslar |
Free City | |
 Halberstadt |
Principality | |
 Hamburg |
Free City | |
 Hildesheim |
Bishopric | |
 Holstein-Glückstadt |
Duchy | |
| Holstein-Gottorp |
Duchy | |
 Lauenburg |
Duchy | |
 Lübeck |
Bishopric | |
 Lübeck |
Free City | |
 Magdeburg |
Duchy | |
 Mecklenburg-Güstrow |
Duchy | |
| Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
Duchy | |
 Mecklenburg-Strelitz |
Duchy | |
 Mühlhausen |
Free City | |
 Nordhausen |
Free City | |
 Rantzau |
County | 1662 - 1806 |
 Ratzeburg |
Principality | |
 Regenstein |
County | |
 Schwerin |
Principality |
Former Estates of the Lower Saxon Circle[]
|
Name |
Type |
|
|---|---|---|
| Bremen |
Archbishopric | |
| Halberstadt |
Bishopric | |
| Holstein |
Duchy | |
| Magdeburg |
Archbishopric | |
 Mecklenburg |
Duchy | |
| Ratzeburg |
Bishopric | |
 Schleswig |
Bishopric | |
 Schwerin |
Bishopric |
| Lower Saxon Circle |
|---|
| Blankenburg | Bremen (duchy) | Bremen (city) | Brunswick-Calenberg | Brunswick-Grubenhagen Brunswick-Lüneburg | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | Goslar | Halberstadt | Hamburg | Hildesheim | Holstein Holstein-Glückstadt | Holstein-Gottorp | Lauenburg | Lübeck (bishopric) | Lübeck (city) | Magdeburg Mecklenburg | Mecklenburg-Güstrow | Mecklenburg-Schwerin | Mecklenburg-Strelitz | Mühlhausen Nordhausen | Rantzau | Ratzeburg | Regenstein | Schwerin Earlier Members Bremen | Halberstadt | Magdeburg | Ratzeburg | Schleswig | Schwerin |
| Imperial Circles |
|---|
| Austrian | Bavarian | Burgundian | Electoral Rhenish | Franconian | Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Lower Saxon | Swabian | Upper Rhenish | Upper Saxon |