The Bavarian Circle (German: Bayrischer Reichskreis) was an Imperial Circle of the Holy Roman Empire. It was created in 1500. The largest and most important state in the Circle was the Duchy of Bavaria (later raised to an electorate), although the Archbishopric of Salzburg, the Count Palatinates of Neuburg and Sulzbach, and the Imperial City of Regensburg were also of importance.
|
Name |
Type |
|
|---|---|---|
 Bavaria |
Duchy | Bavarian Wittelsbach hereditary land |
 Berchtesgaden |
Provostry | |
| Breiteneck | Lordship | 1649 - 1806 |
 Ehrenfels |
Lordship | |
 Freising |
Bishopric | |
 Haag |
County | Annexed to Bavaria in 1567 |
| Hohenwaldeck | Lordship | |
 Leuchtenberg |
Landgraviate | |
 Neuburg |
Duchy | 1505 - 1806 |
| Niedermünster in Regensburg | Abbey | |
 Obermünster in Regensburg |
Abbey | |
 Ortenburg |
County | |
 Passau |
Bishopric | |
 Regensburg |
Bishopric | |
 Regensburg |
Free City | |
 Salzburg |
Archbishopric | |
 St Emmeran in Regensburg |
Abbey | |
 Sternstein |
County | 1642 - 1806 |
 Sulzbach |
Duchy | 1697 - 1806 |
 Sulzbürg and Pyrbaum |
Lordship |
Former Estates of the Bavarian Circle[]
|
Name |
Type |
|
|---|---|---|
 Chiemsee |
Bishopric | |
 Degenberg |
Lordship | 1500 - 1602 |
| Kaisheim (Kaisersheim) | Abbey | |
| Mönchröden | Abbey | |
| Waldsassen | Abbey |
| Bavarian Circle |
|---|
| Ecclesiastical Bench Berchtesgaden | Freising | Niedermünster | Obermünster | Passau Regensburg (bishopric) | St. Emmeram | Salzburg Secular Bench Bavaria | Breiteneck | Ehrenfels | Haag | Hohenwaldeck | Leuchtenberg | Neuburg Ortenburg | Regensburg (city) | Sternstein | Sulzbach | Sulzbürg and Pyrbaum |
| Earlier Members |
| Chiemsee | Degenberg | Kaisheim | Mönchröden | Waldsassen |
| Imperial Circles |
|---|
| Austrian | Bavarian | Burgundian | Electoral Rhenish | Franconian | Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Lower Saxon | Swabian | Upper Rhenish | Upper Saxon |