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Salm-Horstmar

Forest- and Rhine-County of Salm-Horstmar
Wild- und Rheingrafschaft Salm-Horstmar
Client of the First French Empire,
State of the Confederation of the Rhine
1803–1813


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Capital Horstmar
Government Principality
Wild- and Rhinegrave Frederick Charles Augustus
Historical era Napoleonic Wars
 •  Established 1803
 •  Mediatised to Prussia 1813
 •  Count Frederick given
    princely title in Prussia
 
1816
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Bishopric of Münster Bishopric of Münster
Kingdom of Prussia


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Salm-Horstmar was a short-lived Napoleonic County in far northern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, located around Horstmar, to the northeast of Münster. It was created in 1803 for Wild- and Rhinegrave Frederick Charles Augustus of Salm-Grumbach following the loss of Grumbach and other territories west of the Rhine to France. It was mediatised to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1813 and the Wild- and Rhinegrave was awarded a princely title within Prussia three years later.



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