Electoral Circle

The region of the Electoral Circle today falls largely within the states of Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt.

The rivers Elbe, Black Elster and, for a short section, Mulde flowed through the Circle.

John Frederick the Magnanimous was defeated by Emperor Charles V in the Schmalkaldic War at the Battle of Mühlberg and was captured there on 24 April 1547.

That year the districts in the Burgraviate of Magdeburg and County of Barby were reassigned to the King of Westphalia, who annexed them to the Department of the Elbe [de].

In order to contribute to the "restoration of order and peace in Europe", on 18 May 1815 Prussia and Saxony entered a peace and friendship treaty in which Saxony ceded three-fifths of its territory to Prussia including the Wittenberg Circle.

The Electoral Circle as recorded by Schreiber
The Electoral Circle as recorded in the Homaennischen Erben 1752
The southern Ämter as recorded by Schreiber