Salm-Horstmar

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 Wilhelm Frederick Charles Augustus of Salm-Grumbach (1799-1865), member of an ancient German House of Salm, following the loss of Grumbach and other territories west of the Rhine to France. The county was mediatised to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1813 and the Wild- and Rhinegrave was awarded a princely title within the Kingdom of Prussia three years later, on 22 November 1816 by Frederick William III of Prussia.

Forest- and Rhine-County of Salm-Horstmar Wild- und Rheingrafschaft Salm-Horstmar
1803–1813
Coat of arms
Status	Client of the First French Empire, State of the Confederation of the Rhine
Capital	Horstmar
Government	Principality
Wild- and Rhinegrave
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 Kingdom of Prussia

Count of Salm-Horstmar (1803–1813)

• Frederick Charles Augustus (1803–1813)

Princes of Salm-Horstmar (1816-present)

• Wilhelm Friedrich, 1st Prince 1816-1865 (1799-1865)
  • Otto I, 2nd Prince 1865-1892 (1833-1892)
    • Otto II, 3rd Prince 1892-1941 (1867-1941)
      • Philipp Franz, 4th Prince 1941-1996 (1909-1996)
        • Philipp Otto, 5th Prince 1996–present (born 1938)
          • Philipp, Hereditary Prince of Salm-Horstmar (born 1973)
          • Prince Christian of Salm-Horstmar (born 1975)
        • Prince Gustav Friedrich of Salm-Horstmar (born 1942)
          • Prince Maximilian of Salm-Horstmar (born 1979)
          • Prince Leopold of Salm-Horstmar (born 1982)
        • Prince Johann Christof of Salm-Horstmar (born 1949)
        • Prince Carlos Federico of Salm-Horstmar (born 1965)
          • Prince Constantin of Salm-Horstmar (born 1994)
          • Prince Adrian of Salm-Horstmar (born 1996)

Bibliography

• Alfred Bruns: Fürstentum Salm-Horstmar in: Gerhard Taddey: Lexikon der Deutschen Geschichte, Stuttgart, 1998, S. 1104f. Digitalisat
• Gerhard Köbler: Historisches Lexikon der Deutschen Länder. 7.Aufl. München, 2007 S.302 S.605
• Wilhelm Kohl: Das Bistum Münster: Die Diözese 4. Berlin, New York, 2004 (Germania Sacra NF 37,4) S.231ff.
• Wilhelm Kohl: Das Bistum Münster: Die Diözese 1 Berlin, New York, 1999 (Germania Sacra NF 37,7) S.573-576