County of Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck Grafschaft Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck |
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State of the Holy Roman Empire, then Client of the First French Empire and State of the Confederation of the Rhine |
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Capital | Dyck | |||
Government | Principality | |||
Historical era | Napoleonic Wars | |||
- Partitioned from Salm-Reifferscheid |
1639 1639 |
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- Joined the Confederation of the Rhine |
1806 |
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- Annexed by France | 1811 | |||
- Mediatised to Prussia | 1813 |
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.
The county was mediatised to Kingdom of Prussia in 1813, of which Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck became a princely title three years later. When the committal line died out, in 1888, the style was assumed by the 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".