Composition
The circle was made up of the following states:
| Name | Type of entity | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Anhalt | Principality | Emerged from Duchy of Saxony in 1212, re-united under the House of Ascania in 1570, divided into Anhalt-Dessau, Anhalt-Bernburg, Anhalt-Köthen and Anhalt-Zerbst from 1603 |
| Barby | County | Imperial immediacy in 1497, fell to the Saxe-Weissenfels branch of the electoral House of Wettin in 1659 |
| Brandenburg | Electorate | Margraviate established in 1157, Prince-elector from 1356 |
| Cammin | Bishopric | Secular territory of the diocese established in 1140, under Pomeranian overlordship, principality from 1545 |
| Gernrode | Abbacy | Imperial abbey established in 961 by King Otto I, held by the House of Ascania from 1616 |
| Hatzfeld-Gleichen | County | Established in 1631, principality from 1741, fell to Mainz in 1794 |
| Hohnstein | County | Territory around Scharzfeld and Lauterberg, line extinct in 1593, fell to Brunswick-Grubenhagen |
| Lohra and Klettenberg | Lordship | held by the Counts of Hohnstein, fell to Halberstadt in 1593, administrated by Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel |
| Mansfeld | County | Established in 1069 by King Henry IV, seized by Saxony in 1579 |
| Pomerania | Duchy | Ruled by the House of Griffins, internally divided from 1532 to 1625, Swedish Pomerania from 1637 on, Farther Pomerania to Brandenburg-Prussia in 1653 |
| Quedlinburg | Abbacy | Established in 936 by King Otto I, occupied by Brandenburg-Prussia in 1698 |
| Querfurt | Principality | Former lordship, to Saxon House of Wettin in 1635, held by Saxe-Weissenfels from 1656–1746 |
| Reuss | County | Established about 1080 by King Henry IV, partitioned in 1564 into Elder Line at Greiz (principality from 1778) and Junior Line at Gera |
| Saxony | Electorate | Successor of Saxe-Wittenberg from 1356, held by the House of Wettin from 1423 |
| Saxe-Weimar | Duchy | Wettin Ernestine duchy established in 1572 |
| Saxe-Altenburg | Duchy | Wettin Ernestine duchy split off Saxe-Weimar in 1602, inherited by Saxe-Gotha in 1672 |
| Saxe-Gotha | Duchy | Wettin Ernestine duchy split off Saxe-Weimar in 1640, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg from 1672 |
| Saxe-Coburg | Duchy | Wettin Ernestine duchy established in 1572 as Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld from 1725 |
| Saxe-Eisenach | Duchy | Wettin Ernestine duchy split off Saxe-Coburg in 1596, personal union with Saxe-Weimar from 1741 |
| Schönburg | County | Various territories, Imperial immediacy in 1182, acquired by Saxony in 1740 |
| Schwarzburg | County | United under the House of Schwarzburg 1538-1583 |
| Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt | County | subdivision established in 1599, raised to principality in 1697 |
| Schwarzburg-Sondershausen | County | subdivision established in 1599 as Schwarzburg-Arnstadt, raised to principality in 1697/1710 |
| Stolberg | County | Stolberg-Stolberg from 1548, under Saxon supremacy from 1738 |
| Stolberg-Rossla | County | Split off Stolberg-Stolberg in 1706, under Saxon supremacy from 1738 |
| Walkenried | Abbacy | Established in 1127, fell to Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel in 1648 |
| Wernigerode | County | Held by Stolberg from 1429, Stolberg-Wernigerode from 1645, under Prussian supremacy from 1714 |
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