Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim

County (Principality) of Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim

Grafschaft (Fürstentum) Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim

1803–1806

Coat of arms

Status

Imperial Estate

Capital

Krautheim

Government

Principality

Count (1803–04)

Prince (1804–06)

Historical era

Napoleonic Wars

• Compensation for Salm-Reifferscheid-Bedburg

1803

• Raised to principality

1804

• Mediatised to Baden and Wurttemberg

1806

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Salm-Reifferscheid-Bedburg

Grand Duchy of Baden
Kingdom of Wurttemberg

Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim was a short-lived Imperial Estate to the Holy Roman Empire, which was created as a succession of Salm-Reifferscheid-Bedburg [de] 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 Gerlachsheim monastery [de] and the Oberamt Grünsfeld [de] of Würzburg. The ruling prince was Franz Wilhelm zu Salm-Reifferscheidt [de]. The principality was mediatised after only three years on 12 July 1806 in Article 24 of the Rhine Confederation Act [de], 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]

References

^ Köbler, Gerhard (2007). 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.] (7th ed.). Munich: CH Beck. p. 349. ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1.