Swabian Circle

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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.