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Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim

Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim

FieldValue
native_nameGrafschaft (Fürstentum) Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim
conventional_long_nameCounty (Principality) of Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim
common_nameSalm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim
image_coatArms of the house of Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim.svg
year_start1803
year_end1806
statusImperial Estate
capitalKrautheim
title_leaderCount (1803–04)
title_representativePrince (1804–06)
eraNapoleonic Wars
government_typePrincipality
event_startCompensation for Salm-Reifferscheid-Bedburg
event1Raised to principality
date_event11804
event_endMediatised to Baden and Wurttemberg
p1Salm-Reifferscheid-Bedburg
image_p1[[File:Coat of arms of None.svg20pxlink=Salm-Reifferscheid-Bedbur]]
s1Grand Duchy of Baden
image_s1[[File:Coat of arms of Baden.svg20pxlink=Grand Duchy of Baden]]
s2Kingdom of Wurttemberg

Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim was a short-lived Imperial Estate to the Holy Roman Empire, which was created as a succession of in 1803. It was raised to a Principality in 1804, and was mediatised to the Kingdom of Wurttemberg and the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806.

History

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Map of the Principality of Krautheim, 1806

The statelet was created on 25 February 1803 as one of the results of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss (Imperial Recess of 1803), in which the House of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Bedburg was compensated for the loss of its areas on the left bank of the Rhine by becoming a principality formed from Mainz and Würzburg possessions. The territory of the new principality included the former possessions of Schöntal Abbey, Krautheim, the and the of Würzburg. The ruling prince was Franz, 1st Prince of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Krautheim.

The principality was mediatised after only three years on 12 July 1806 in Article 24 of the , and the territory north of the Jagst given to the Grand Duchy of Baden, and to the south of the Jagst to the Kingdom of Württemberg.

His son, Konstantine, succeeded him in 1831, but sold his lordly privileges to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1839. His son, Leopold, the 4th Prince, inherited Schloss Dyck from Alfred, 2nd Prince of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck in 1888. Upon the death of Franz, 6th Prince and Count of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Krautheim und Dyck, the male line of the Princes of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck of the Salm-Reifferscheidt family became extinct.

Counts of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Krautheim (1803–1804)

  • Franz Wilhelm, 1st Count, elevated to Reichsfürst 1804

Princes of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Krautheim (1804–1806)

  • Franz Wilhelm, 1st Prince, mediatized 1806 (1772–1831)
    • Konstantin, 2nd Prince (1798–1856)
      • Franz, 3rd Prince (1827–1860)
      • Leopold, 4th Prince (1833–1893)
        • Alfred, 5th Prince (1863–1924)
          • Franz, 6th Prince (1899–1958)

References

References

  1. (2007). "Historisches Lexikon der deutschen Länder. Die deutschen Territorien vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart". CH Beck.
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