Forest- and Rhine-County of Salm-Horstmar Wild- und Rheingrafschaft Salm-Horstmar | |||||||||
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| 1803–1813 | |||||||||
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| Status | Client of the First French Empire, State of the Confederation of the Rhine | ||||||||
| Capital | Horstmar | ||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||
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| Historical era | Napoleonic Wars | ||||||||
• Established | 1803 | ||||||||
• Mediatised to Prussia | 1813 | ||||||||
• Count Frederick given princely title in Prussia | 1816 | ||||||||
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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.
