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Swabian Circle
Schwäbischer Reichskreis
Imperial Circle of the Holy Roman Empire
1500–1808
Coat of arms
The Swabian Circle as at the beginning of the 16th century within the Holy Roman Empire
Capital
Ulm
Area
• 1801
34,314 km2 (13,249 sq mi)
Government
Circle Colonel
• 1531-1537
Wolfgang von Montfort
• 1556-1562
Wilhelm von Eberstein
• 1563, 1564-1568
Christoph
• 1569-1591
Louis III
• 1622-1628
John Frederick
Legislature
Circle Diet
Historical era
Early modern period
• Established
1500
• Peace of Westphalia
1648
• Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
1806
• Disestablished
1808
Today part of
Austria Germany Liechtenstein Switzerland
The Circle of Swabia or Swabian Circle (German: Schwäbischer Reichskreis or Schwäbischer Kreis) was an Imperial Circle of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1500 on the territory of the former German stem-duchy of Swabia. However, it did not include the Habsburg home territories of Swabian Austria, the member states of the Swiss Confederacy nor the lands of the Alsace region west of the Rhine, which belonged to the Upper Rhenish Circle. The Swabian League of 1488, a predecessor organization, disbanded in the course of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War later in the 16th century.
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comprised the Further Austrian territories in the former Swabian stem duchy. The Austrian Circle was largely coterminous with the "Hereditary Lands" (Erblande)...
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Baden-Baden had set up in the Baroque era, and the standing army of the SwabianCircle, to which both territories had to contribute troops. The reunification...
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Schweinsberg with a height of 372 meters. Heilbronn is adjacent to the Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park and is surrounded by vineyards. Heilbronn...
of Rhenish Franconia including the Swabian Alsace region and the Burgundian duchy of Savoy. Many of the circle's states west of the Rhine river were...
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triplum. The figures for the contingents to be supplied by each Imperial Circle were little altered until the demise of the Empire. In practice, they were...
of Prague, which dissolved the Catholic and Heilbronn leagues. The SwabianCircle alone contained nearly 90 separate members, not all of whom participated...
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Ochsenhausen Abbey (formerly Ochsenhausen Priory; German: Reichskloster or Reichsabtei Ochsenhausen) was a Benedictine monastery in Ochsenhausen in the...
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