Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck

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Grafschaft Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck County of Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck State of the Holy Roman Empire, then Client of the First French Empire and State of the Confederation of the Rhine ← 1639 – 1811 → Capital Dyck Government Principality Historical era Napoleonic Wars  - Partitioned from     Salm-Reifferscheid   1639  - Joined the Confederation     of the Rhine   1806  - 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 comital 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 Daun and Kyrburg, Rhine Count of Stein, Lord of Diemeringen and Anholt".

[edit] Counts of Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck (1639–1806)

• Ernest Salentin (1639–1684)
• Francis Ernest (1684–1727)
• Augustus Eugene Bernard (1727–1761)
• William (1767–1775)
• Joseph (1775–1806)