 In 1803 the principality comprised 9.5 German square miles with 22,000 inhabitants.Its capital was Eutin.The Lutheran Church, since the Protestant Reformation comprising the majority of the inhabitants, remained a separate entity, named "Evangelical Lutheran State Church of the Oldenburgian Region of Lübeck" (, chaired by a land provost or bishop in Eutin) until it merged with neighbouring Landeskirchen in the new North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1977.