Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim

Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim

Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim

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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.

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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]

See also

  • Krautheim Castle [de]

References

  1. [1]
    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.
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