Salm (Principality)

Salm-Salm or Salm-Salm ( Salm-Salm ) - the county ( principality since 1739) of the Holy Roman Empire , which existed on the territory of the French departments of the Lower Rhine and Vosges from 1574 to 1793. The name is derived from the castle, now destroyed, near the town of La Brock on the road from Epinal to Strasbourg .

County Salm on the map

Before the annexation of Lorraine to France (1751), the Principality of Salm-Salm existed with the capital in Badonville . Then the ruling dynasty - Salma (Zalma) - moved to the city of Senon . With the beginning of the French Revolution (1790), Salma, fearing the further spread of French borders to the east, moved to Westphalian possessions ( Anholt Castle ). Three years later, the National Convention declared the Principality of Salm as part of France. The Habsburgs , who at that time patronized the Salm, were forced to recognize this decision in the Luneville world (1801).

View of the city of Senon - once the capital of Salm

A year later, the Salm and Kirburg branches of the Zalm house received at their disposal a part of the lands of the Prince-Bishopric of Munster , on which a single Salm Principality arose with the capital in Boholt . It was mediated in 1811.