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 |
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Aalen | Free City | |
Augsburg | Bishopric | |
Augsburg | Free City | |
Aulendorf | Lordship | |
Baar | Landgraviate | |
Baden-Baden | Margraviate | |
Baden-Durlach | Margraviate | |
Baindt | Abbey | |
Biberach an der Riss | Free City | |
Bonndorf | County | |
Bopfingen | Free City | |
Buchau | Abbey | |
Buchau | Free City | |
Buchhorn | Free City | |
Constance | Bishopric | |
Dinkelsbühl | Free City | |
Eberstein | County | |
Eglingen | Lordship | 1555 - 1806 |
Eglofs | Lordship | 1661 - 1806 |
Elchingen | Abbey | |
Ellwangen | Provostry | |
Esslingen am Neckar | Free City | |
Fugger | County | 1563 - 1806; territories of the House of Fugger |
Gengenbach | Abbey | |
Gengenbach | Free City | |
Giengen an der Brenz | Free City | |
Gundelfingen | Lordship | |
Gutenzell | Abbey | |
Hachberg | Margraviate | |
Hausen | Lordship | |
Heggbach | Abbey | |
Heilbronn | Free City | |
Heiligenberg | County | |
Hohenems | County | |
Hohengeroldseck | Lordship | |
Hohenzollern-Hechingen | Principality | |
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | County | |
Irsee | Abbey | |
Isny im Allgäu | Free City | |
Justingen | County | |
Kaisersheim (Kaisheim) | Abbey | |
Kaufbeuren | Free City | |
Kempten | Abbey | |
Kempten | Free City | |
Klettgau | Landgraviate | |
Königsegg | County | |
Leutkirch im Allgäu | Free City | |
Liechtenstein | Principality | 1707 - 1806 |
Lindau | Abbey | |
Lindau | Free City | |
Mainau | Commandery | Administrative territory of the Teutonic Order |
Marchtal | Abbey | |
Memmingen | Free City | |
Messkirch | Lordship | |
Mindelheim and Schwabegg | Lordship | |
Neresheim | Abbey | 1767 - 1806 |
Nördlingen | Free City | |
Ochsenhausen | Abbey | |
Offenburg | Free City | |
Öttingen-Baldern | County | |
Öttingen-Öttingen | County | |
Öttingen-Wallerstein | County | |
Petershausen | Abbey | |
Pfullendorf | Free City | |
Ravensburg | Free City | |
Reutlingen | Free City | |
Roggenburg | Abbey | |
Roth | Abbey | |
Rothenfels | County | |
Rottenmünster | Abbey | |
Rottweil | Free City | |
St Gall | Abbey | |
St George in Isny | Abbey | 1782 - 1806 |
Salmannsweiler (Salem) | Abbey | |
Schussenried | Abbey | |
Schwäbisch Gmünd | Free City | |
Schwäbisch Hall | Free City | |
Sickingen | County | 1792 - 1806 |
Söfflingen | Abbey | 1773 - 1806 |
Staufen | Lordship | |
Stühlingen | Landgraviate | |
Tettnang and Argen | Lordship | |
Thannhausen | Lordship | 1677 - 1806 |
Thengen | County | 1664 - 1806 |
Überlingen | Free City | |
Ulm | Free City | |
Ursberg | Abbey | |
Waldburg-Scheer | Archstewardship | |
Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee | Archstewardship | |
Waldburg-Wolfegg-Wolfegg | Archstewardship | |
Waldburg-Zeil-Trachburg | Archstewardship | |
Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach | Archstewardship | |
Waldburg-Zeil-Zeil | Archstewardship | |
Wangen im Allgäu | Free City | |
Weil der Stadt | Free City | |
Weingarten | Abbey | |
Weissenau | Abbey | |
Wettenhausen | Provostry | |
Wiesensteig | Lordship | |
Wimpfen | Free City | |
Württemberg | Duchy | |
Zell am Harmersbach | Free City | |
Zwiefalten | Abbey | 1750 - 1806 |
Former Estates of the Swabian Circle[]
Name |
Type |
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Constance | Free City | |
Diessen | Lordship | |
Disentis | Abbey | |
Einsiedeln | Abbey | |
Falkenstein | Lordship | |
Geroldseck | County | |
Helfenstein | County | |
Kirchberg and Weissenhorn | County | |
Königsbronn | Abbey | |
Kreuzlingen | Abbey | |
Löwenstein | County | |
Lupfen | County | |
Maulbronn | Abbey | |
Pfäfers | Abbey | |
Reichenau | Abbey | |
St Gall | Free City | |
St John im Turital | Abbey | |
St Peter im Schwarzwald | Abbey | |
Schaffhausen | Abbey | |
Schaffhausen | Free City | |
Schuttern | Abbey | |
Schwäbisch Wörth (Donauwörth) | Free City | |
Stein am Rhein | Abbey | |
Sulz | County | |
Tübingen | County Palatine | |
Werdenberg | County | |
Zimmern | Lordship |
Swabian Circle |
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Ecclesiastical Princes Augsburg | Constance | Ellwangen | Kempten | Lindau Secular Princes Prelates Counts and Lords Imperial Cities and Villages |
Imperial Circles |
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Austrian | Bavarian | Burgundian | Electoral Rhenish | Franconian | Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Lower Saxon | Swabian | Upper Rhenish | Upper Saxon |