Native Name: | Grafschaft (Fürstentum) Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim |
Conventional Long Name: | County (Principality) of Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim |
Common Name: | Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim |
Year Start: | 1803 |
Year End: | 1806 |
Status: | Imperial Estate |
Capital: | Krautheim |
Title Leader: | Count (1803–04) |
Title Representative: | Prince (1804–06) |
Era: | Napoleonic Wars |
Government Type: | Principality |
Event Start: | Compensation for Salm-Reifferscheid-Bedburg |
Event1: | Raised to principality |
Date Event1: | 1804 |
Event End: | Mediatised to Baden and Wurttemberg |
P1: | Salm-Reifferscheid-Bedburg |
S1: | Grand Duchy of Baden |
S2: | Kingdom 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.
The statelet was created on 25 February 1803 as one of the results of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, 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 . 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.[1]