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The territories of the Swabian Circle

The Swabian Circle (German: Schwäbischer Reichskreis) was an Imperial Circle of the Holy Roman Empire. It was created in 1500 comprising of a great number of states (most emerging after the collapse of the old Duchy of Swabia), although only Württemberg, Baden, and the Bishopric of Augsburg were of any great importance. The circle lost several members in the 16th and 17th Centuries to the growing Swiss Confederation which was confirmed by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.

Name

Type

Arms-Aalen-pre1956 Aalen Free City
Arms-Augsburg-Diocese Augsburg Bishopric
Arms-Augsburg Augsburg Free City
Aulendorf Lordship
Baar Landgraviate
Arms-Baden Baden-Baden Margraviate
Arms-Baden Baden-Durlach Margraviate
Baindt Abbey
Arms-BiberachRiss Biberach an der Riss Free City
Bonndorf County
Arms-Bopfingen Bopfingen Free City
Buchau Abbey
Arms-BadBuchau Buchau Free City
Arms-Friedrichshafen Buchhorn Free City
Arms-Constance-Diocese Constance Bishopric
Arms-Dinkelsbühl Dinkelsbühl Free City
Arms-Eberstein Eberstein County
Eglingen Lordship 1555 - 1806
Arms-Eglofs Eglofs Lordship 1661 - 1806
Elchingen Abbey
Arms-Ellwangen-Provostry Ellwangen Provostry
Arms-EsslingenNeckar Esslingen am Neckar Free City
Arms-Fugger Fugger County 1563 - 1806; territories of the House of Fugger
Arms-Gengenbach-Abbey Gengenbach Abbey
Arms-Gengenbach Gengenbach Free City
Arms-GiengenBrenz Giengen an der Brenz Free City
Arms-Gundelfingen Gundelfingen Lordship
Gutenzell Abbey
Arms-Hachberg Hachberg Margraviate
Arms-Hausen-Swabia Hausen Lordship
Heggbach Abbey
Arms-Heilbronn Heilbronn Free City
Arms-Heiligenberg Heiligenberg County
Arms-Hohenems Hohenems County
Arms-Geroldseck Hohengeroldseck Lordship
Arms-Zollern Hohenzollern-Hechingen Principality
Arms-Zollern Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen County
Arms-Irsee-Abbey Irsee Abbey
Arms-Isny Isny im Allgäu Free City
Justingen County
Kaisersheim (Kaisheim) Abbey
Arms-Kaufbeuren Kaufbeuren Free City
Arms-Kempten-Abbey Kempten Abbey
Arms-Kempten1500s-1818 Kempten Free City
Klettgau Landgraviate
Arms-Konigsegg Königsegg County
Arms-Leutkirch Leutkirch im Allgäu Free City
Arms-Liechtenstein Liechtenstein Principality 1707 - 1806
Lindau Abbey
Arms-LindauBodensee-FreeCity Lindau Free City
Arms-Teutonic-Order Mainau Commandery Administrative territory of the Teutonic Order
Marchtal Abbey
Arms-Memmingen Memmingen Free City
Messkirch Lordship
Mindelheim and Schwabegg Lordship
Neresheim Abbey 1767 - 1806
Arms-Nordlingen Nördlingen Free City
Arms-Ochsenhausen-Abbey Ochsenhausen Abbey
Arms-Offenburg Offenburg Free City
Arms-Ottingen2 Öttingen-Baldern County
Arms-Ottingen2 Öttingen-Öttingen County
Arms-Ottingen2 Öttingen-Wallerstein County
Arms-Petershausen-Abbey Petershausen Abbey
Arms-Pfullendorf Pfullendorf Free City
Arms-Ravensburg Ravensburg Free City
Arms-Reutlingen Reutlingen Free City
Arms-Roggenburg-Abbey Roggenburg Abbey
Arms-Roth-Abbey Roth Abbey
Rothenfels County
Rottenmünster Abbey
Arms-Rottweil Rottweil Free City
Arms-StGall-Abbey St Gall Abbey
St George in Isny Abbey 1782 - 1806
Arms-Salmannsweiler-Abbey2 Salmannsweiler (Salem) Abbey
Schussenried Abbey
Arms-SchwäbischGmünd Schwäbisch Gmünd Free City
Arms-SchwäbischHall Schwäbisch Hall Free City
Arms-Sickingen Sickingen County 1792 - 1806
Söfflingen Abbey 1773 - 1806
Arms-Staufen Staufen Lordship
Stühlingen Landgraviate
Arms-Montfort Tettnang and Argen Lordship
Thannhausen Lordship 1677 - 1806
Arms-Thengen Thengen County 1664 - 1806
Arms-Uberlingen Überlingen Free City
Arms-Ulm1351-1803 Ulm Free City
Arms-Ursberg-Abbey Ursberg Abbey
Arms-Waldburg1 Waldburg-Scheer Archstewardship
Arms-Waldburg1 Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee Archstewardship
Arms-Waldburg1 Waldburg-Wolfegg-Wolfegg Archstewardship
Arms-Waldburg1 Waldburg-Zeil-Trachburg Archstewardship
Arms-Waldburg1 Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach Archstewardship
Arms-Waldburg1 Waldburg-Zeil-Zeil Archstewardship
Arms-Wangen Wangen im Allgäu Free City
Arms-Weil Weil der Stadt Free City
Arms-Weingarten-Abbey Weingarten Abbey
Weissenau Abbey
Arms-Wettenhausen-Abbey Wettenhausen Provostry
Wiesensteig Lordship
Arms-BadWimpfen Wimpfen Free City
Arms-Württemberg Württemberg Duchy
Arms-ZellHarmersbach Zell am Harmersbach Free City
Zwiefalten Abbey 1750 - 1806


Former Estates of the Swabian Circle[]

Name

Type

Arms-Constance Constance Free City
Diessen Lordship
Arms-Disentis-Abbey Disentis Abbey
Einsiedeln Abbey
Arms-Falkenstein Falkenstein Lordship
Arms-Geroldseck Geroldseck County
Arms-Helfenstein Helfenstein County
Kirchberg and Weissenhorn County
Königsbronn Abbey
Arms-Kreutzlingen-Abbey Kreuzlingen Abbey
Arms-Lowenstein Löwenstein County
Arms-Lupfen Lupfen County
Maulbronn Abbey
Arms-Pfäfers-Abbey Pfäfers Abbey
Arms-Reichenau-Abbey Reichenau Abbey
Arms-StGall St Gall Free City
St John im Turital Abbey
St Peter im Schwarzwald Abbey
Schaffhausen Abbey
Schaffhausen Free City
Arms-Schuttern-Abbey Schuttern Abbey
Arms-Donauwörth Schwäbisch Wörth (Donauwörth) Free City
Stein am Rhein Abbey
Arms-Sulz Sulz County
Arms-Tübingen Tübingen County Palatine
Arms-Werdenberg-Sargans Werdenberg County
Arms-Zimmern Zimmern Lordship


Swabian Circle
Ecclesiastical Princes
Augsburg | Constance | Ellwangen | Kempten | Lindau

Secular Princes
Baden-Baden | Baden-Durlach | Buchau | Heiligenberg | Hochberg | Hohenzollern-Hechingen | Klettgau
Liechtenstein | Thengen | Württemberg

Prelates
Baindt | Elchingen | Gengenbach | Gutenzell | Heggbach | Irsee | Kaisersheim | Marchtal | Neresheim | Ochsenhausen | Petershausen
Roggenburg | Roth | Rottenmünster | St Gall | Salmannsweiler | Schussenried | Söfflingen | Teutonic Order | Ursberg | Weingarten
Weissenau | Wettenhausen | Zwiefalten

Counts and Lords
Aulendorf | Baar | Bonndorf | Eberstein | Eglingen | Eglofs | Fugger | Gundelfingen | Gutenstein | Hausen | Heiligenberg | Hohenems
Hohengeroldseck | Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | Justingen | Königsegg | Messkirch | Mindelheim and Schwabegg | Öttingen-Baldern
Öttingen-Öttingen | Öttingen-Wallerstein | Rothenfels | Staufen | Stühlingen | Tettnang and Argen | Thannhausen
Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee | Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach | Wiesensteig

Imperial Cities and Villages
Aalen | Augsburg | |Biberach | Bopfingen | Buchau | Buchhorn | Constance | Dinkelsbühl | Esslingen | Gengenbach | Giengen | Heilbronn
Isny | Kaufbeuren | Kempten | Leutkirch | Lindau | Memmingen | Nördlingen | Offenburg | Pfullendorf | Ravensburg | Reutlingen
Rottweil | Schwäbisch Gmünd | Schwäbisch Hall | Überlingen | Ulm | |Wangen | Weil | Wimpfen | Zell


Earlier Members
Diessen | Disentis | Einsiedeln | Falkenstein | Geroldseck | Helffenstein | Kirchberg-Weissenhorn | Königsbronn | Kreuzlingen | Löwenstein
Lupfen | |Maulbronn | Pfäfers | Reichenau St Gall | St John | St Peter | Schaffhausen (abbey) | Schaffhausen (city) | Schuttern
Schwäbisch Wörth | Stein | Sulz | Tübingen | Werdenberg | Zimmern


Imperial Circles
Austrian | Bavarian | Burgundian | Electoral Rhenish | Franconian | Lower Rhenish-Westphalian
Lower Saxon | Swabian | Upper Rhenish | Upper Saxon
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