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v • d • e Holy Roman Empire – Lower Saxon Circle (1500–1806) Ecclesiastical princes Bremen* | Halberstadt* | Hildesheim | Lübeck | Magdeburg* | Ratzeburg (until 1701) | Schwerin* Secular princes Bremen† | Brunswick: Blankenburg (until 1731), Calenberg‡, Celle, Grubenhagen‡, Lüneburg‡, Wolfenbüttel | Hanover (from 1708)| Holstein: Glückstadt, Gottorp | Mecklenburg: Güstrow (until 1695), Schwerin, Strelitz | Rantzau (until 1734) | Regenstein | Saxe-Lauenburg‡ Imperial cities Bremen | Goslar | Hamburg | Lübeck | Mühlhausen | Nordhausen * until 1648     † from 1648     ‡ until 1708

[edit] Composition

The circle was made up of the following states:

Name	Type of entity	Comments
Blankenburg am Harz	Principality	Held by the Dukes of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1731
Bremen	Archbishopric	Secularized as a duchy in 1648 and then held by Sweden until 1719
Bremen	Imperial City
Brunswick-Celle	Principality	Subdivision of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Brunswick-Grubenhagen	Principality	Subdivision of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Brunswick-Calenberg	Principality, Duchy	Subdivision of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Calenberg dukes managed to get all of Brunswick except Wolfenbüttel
Brunswick-Lüneburg	Duchy	Later became known as the Electorate of Hanover
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel	Principality, Duchy	Became Duchy of Brunswick in 1815
Goslar	Imperial City
Halberstadt	Bishopric	Secularized as a principality held by Brandenburg in 1648
Hamburg	Imperial City
Electorate of Hanover	Electorate	Formally the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Earlier the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
Hildesheim	Bishopric
Holstein	Duchy
Holstein-Glückstadt	Duchy
Holstein-Gottorp	Duchy
Lübeck	Bishopric
Lübeck	Imperial City
Magdeburg	Archbishopric	Secularized as a duchy held by Brandenburg in 1680
Mecklenburg	Duchy	Partitioned into Mecklenburg-Güstrow and Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1621, re-unified in 1695, and partitioned finally into Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1701
Mecklenburg-Güstrow	Duchy
Mecklenburg-Schwerin	Duchy
Mecklenburg-Strelitz	Duchy
Mühlhausen	Imperial City
Nordhausen	Imperial City
Rantzau	County	Held by the King of Denmark from 1734
Ratzeburg	Bishopric	Secularized as a principality held by the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1648
Regenstein	County
Saxe-Lauenburg	Duchy
Schwerin	Bishopric	Secularized as a principality held by the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1648