Salm-Kyrburg was a state of the

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located in present-day

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, one of the various partitions of Salm. It was twice created: the first time as a Wild- and Rhinegraviate (partitioned from Upper Salm), and secondly as a Principality (succeeding the earlier Principality of

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). The first state of Salm-Kyrburg was partitioned between itself, Salm-Mörchingen and Salm-Tronecken in 1607, and was inherited by Salm-Neuweiler in 1681 upon the lines' extinction. In 1742, Salm-Kyrburg was raised to a principality; it shared its vote in the Reichstag with Salm-Salm. Salm-Kyrburg was annexed by France in 1798; this was recognized by the

in the

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of 1801. As a compensation, the princes were granted new territories formerly belonging to the Bishops of

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in 1802, which formed the newly founded Principality of Salm. The full title used by the Princes of the resurrected state was "Prince of Salm-Kyrburg, Sovereign Prince of Ahaus, Bocholt and Gemen, Wildgrave of

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and

Kyrburg Kirn is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. It is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Kirner Land. Kirn is a middle centre serving an area on the Nahe and in the Hunsrück. Geography Location Kirn lies in a la ...

, Rhinegrave of Stein".

Princes of Salm-Kyrburg

Wild- and Rhinegraves (1499–1681)

* John VII (1499–1531) * John VIII (1531–1548) * Otto I (1548–1607) * John Casimir (1607–1651) * George Frederick (1651–1681)

Sovereign princes (1743–1813)

* Philip Joseph (

Wild- and Rhinegrave (feminine: ) is a historical title of the German nobility, usually translated as "count". Considered to be intermediate among noble ranks, the title is often treated as equivalent to the British title of "earl" (whose female version is "coun ...

) (1743–1779) * Frederick III (1779–1794) * Frederick IV (1794–1813)

Mediatised princes within Prussia (1813–1921)

* Frederick IV (1813–1859) * Frederick V (1859–1887) * Frederick VI (1887–1905) * Yvonne (1905-1921) {{Upper Rhenish Circle States and territories established in 1499 Counties of the Holy Roman Empire 1798 disestablishments