Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck
Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck
County of the Holy Roman Empire
Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck was a small County of the Holy Roman Empire. Its territory was the area around Dyck (south-east of Mönchengladbach) in present North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck was a partition of Salm-Reifferscheid, and was annexed by the First French Empire in the French Revolutionary Wars, in 1811. ter The county was mediatised to Kingdom of Prussia in 1813, while three years later, in 1816, the Head of the family was raised to the title of Fürst in Prussia. When this branch of the Salm family died out in 1888, the style was assumed by their closest agnatic cousins , Princes of Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim.
The full princely style was "Imperial Prince of Salm, Duke of Hoogstraten, Forest Count of Dhaun and Kyrburg, Rhine Count of Stein, Lord of Diemeringen and Anholt".