Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim Explained

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.

History

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Köbler . Gerhard . Historisches Lexikon der deutschen Länder. Die deutschen Territorien vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart . Historical encyclopedia of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. . 2007 . CH Beck . . 978-3-406-54986-1 . 349 . 7th.