Template:Circleus

v • d • e Holy Roman Empire — Upper Saxon Circle (1512–1806)

Electorates	Brandenburg \| Saxony

Ecclesiastical princes	Cammin

Secular princes	Anhalt \| Barby \| Hatzfeld \| Pomerania: Further, Hither \| Querfurt \| Reuss: Elder, Junior \| Saxe-Weimar \| Schwarzburg: Rudolstadt, Sondershausen

Prelates	Gernrode \| Quedlinburg \| Walkenried

Counts and Lords	Hohnstein \| Lohra and Klettenberg \| Mansfeld \| Schönburg \| Stolberg: Stolberg, Wernigerode

[edit] Composition

The circle was made up of the following states:

Name	Type of entity	Comments
Anhalt		Various principalities
Barby	County	Held by the Elector of Saxony from 1659
Brandenburg	Margraviate, Electorate
Cammin	Bishopric	Secularized as a principality held by the Elector of Brandenburg in 1648
Further Pomerania	Duchy	Held by the Elector of Brandenburg from 1648
Gernrode	Abbacy
Hatzfeld	Principality
Hither Pomerania	Duchy	Held by the King of Sweden from 1648
Hohnstein	County
Lohra and Klettenberg	Lordship
Mansfeld	County
Quedlinburg	Abbacy
Querfurt	Principality	Held by the Elector of Saxony from 1648
Reuß		Various principalities
Saxe-Weimar	Duchy	Various principalities, see Ernestine duchies
Saxony	Electorate
Schönburg		Various counties
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt	Principality
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen	Principality
Stolberg-Stolberg	County	Held by the Elector of Saxony from 1738
Stolberg-Wernigerode	County	Held by the Elector of Brandenburg from 1714
Walkenried	Abbacy	Held by the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1648