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The Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle (German: Niederrheinisch-Westfälischer Reichskreis) was an Imperial Circle of the Holy Roman Empire.
Composition
The circle was made up of the following states:
| Name | Type of entity | Comments |
|---|---|---|
 Aachen |
Imperial City | From 1306 |
 Anholt |
Lordship | Fell to Principality of Salm-Salm in 1641 |
 Beilstein |
Lordship | To Electoral Rhenish Circle, 1512 |
 Bentheim |
County | |
 Bentheim-Steinfurt |
County | Subdivision of Bentheim from 1454 |
 Berg |
Duchy | Part of Jülich-Cleves-Berg 1521 to 1614 |
 Blankenheim-Gerolstein |
County | |
 Brakel |
Imperial City | |
 Cambrai |
Bishopric | |
| Cambrai |
Imperial City | |
 Cleves |
Duchy | Part of Jülich-Cleves-Berg 1521 to 1614 |
 Cologne |
Imperial City | |
 Corvey |
Abbacy | |
 Delmenhorst |
County | |
 Diepholz |
County | |
 Dortmund |
Imperial City | |
 Duisburg |
Imperial City | status unclear |
 Düren |
Imperial City | |
 East Frisia |
County | Raised to Principality 1662, fell to Prussia in 1744 |
 Echternach |
Abbacy | |
 Essen |
Abbacy | |
| Fagnolle | County | |
| Gemen | Lordship | |
| Gimborn | Lordship | |
 Gronsveld |
County | |
| Hallermund | County | |
 Herford |
Abbacy | |
 Herford |
Imperial City | status unclear |
 Holzappel |
County | |
 Hoya |
County | |
 Jülich |
Duchy | Part of Jülich-Cleves-Berg 1521 to 1614 |
| Kerpen-Lommersum | County | |
 Kornelimünster |
Abbacy | |
 Lemgo |
Imperial City | |
 Liège |
Bishopric | |
 Lingen |
County | |
 Lippe |
Principality | |
 Luxembourg |
Duchy | unclear, later to Burgundian Circle |
| Malmedy | Abbacy | |
 Manderscheid |
County | |
 Mark |
County | Part of Jülich-Cleves-Berg to 1614 |
| Myllendonk | Lordship | |
| Minden | Bishopric | Secularised to Brandenburg by the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, as the Principality of Minden |
| Moers | Principality | |
| Münster | Bishopric | |
| Nassau-Diez | County | Emerged from Nassau-Dillenburg 1606, Principality 1654 |
| Nassau-Dillenburg | County | Principality 1652, fell to Nassau-Diez 1739 |
| Nassau-Hadamar | County | Emerged from Nassau-Dillenburg 1606, Principality 1650, fell to Nassau-Diez 1743 |
| Oldenburg | County | |
| Osnabrück | Bishopric | |
| Paderborn | Bishopric | |
| Pyrmont | County | |
| Ravensberg | County | |
| Reckheim | County | |
| Reichenstein | Lordship | |
| Rietberg | County | |
| Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck | County | status unclear |
| Sayn | County | |
| Schaumburg | County | |
| Schaumburg-Hesse | County | |
| Schaumburg-Lippe | County | |
| Schleiden | County | |
| Soest | Imperial City | |
| Spiegelberg | County | |
| Stavelot | Abbacy | |
| Steinfurt | County | |
| Tecklenburg | County | |
| Thorn | Abbacy | |
| Utrecht | Bishopric | later to Burgundian Circle |
| Verden | Bishopric | Secularized as a principality held by the King of Sweden from 1648 |
| Verden | Imperial City | status unclear |
| Virneburg | County | |
| Warburg | Imperial City | |
| Werden | Abbacy | |
| Wesel | Imperial City | status unclear |
| Wickrath | County | To Prussia in 1814 |
| Wied | County | |
| Winneburg | Lordship | |
| Wittem | Lordship |
References
- The list of states making up the Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle is based in part on that in the German Wikipedia article Niederrheinisch-Westfälischer Reichskreis.
- (German) List of the imperial circles of 1532
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