Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck

"Salm-Dyck" redirects here. For the botanist, see Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck.

Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck was a small imperial county of the Holy Roman Empire. Its territory was the area around Dyck (south-east of Mönchengladbach) in present North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

County of Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck Grafschaft Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck
1639–1811
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Status	State of the Holy Roman Empire, then Client of the First French Empire and State of the Confederation of the Rhine
Capital	Dyck
Government	Principality
Historical era	Napoleonic Wars
• Partitioned from Salm-Reifferscheid	1639 1639
• Joined the Rhine confederation	1806
• Annexed by France	1811
• Mediatised to Prussia	1813
Preceded by Succeeded by Salm-Reifferscheid Lippe (department)

Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck was a partition of Salm-Reifferscheid, divided between two grandsons of the ruling family in 1649.^[1] It was annexed in 1811 by the First French Empire in the French Revolutionary Wars. The county was mediatised to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1813. Three years later, in 1816, the Head of the family^{[citation needed]} was raised to the title of Fürst in Prussia.^[2] When this branch of the Salm family died out in 1888,^[2] the style was assumed by their closest agnatic cousins, Princes of Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

Counts and Princes of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck (1639–1888)

• Ernest Salentin, Count 1639-1684 (1621–1684), second son of Ernst Friedrich, Count of Salm-Reifferscheidt
  • Francis Ernest, Count 1684-1727 (1659-1727)
    • Augustus Eugene Bernard, Count 1727-1767 (1706–1767)
    • Johann Franz Wilhelm, Count 1767-1775 (1714–1775)
      • Joseph Franz, Count 1775–1806, 1st Prince 1816-1861 (1773–1861) (Mediatized from 1806)
      • Prince Franz Joseph August of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck (1775-1826)
        • Alfred Joseph Klemens, Count and 2nd Prince 1861-1888 (1811-1888)

References

1. Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. "Salm-Reifferscheidt". In Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ed.). 'Neue deutsche Biographie. 22' - Viewer | MDZ (in German). p. 383. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
2. Stearn, William T. (1938). "An annotated Index to Salm-Dyck's "Monographia Generum Aloes et Mesembryanthemi"". The Cactus Journal. 7 (2): 34–44. ISSN 0950-7949. JSTOR 42784784.