The
Wild- and Rhinegraves of Salm-Grumbach were Lords of the
County of Horstmar, which was an independent
Napoleonic County in far northern
North Rhine-Westphalia (to the northeast of
Münster), for several years between 1802 and 1806, which became part of the
Grand Duchy of Berg in 1806 through the Act of
Confederation of the Rhine. After the annexation of
Grumbach and other territories west of the
Rhine by the
French which was incorporated into the
Department of Lippe between 1811 and 1813, and a transitional administration by the General Government between the
Weser and the Rhine, the remaining property was
mediatised to the
Kingdom of Prussia in 1813 by the
Congress of Vienna; there the Counts of Salm-Grumbach were raised to the hereditary
princely title on 22 November 1816 by King
Frederick William III and from then on called themselves
Salm-Horstmar. In 1836 he was made an honorary citizen of
Coesfeld. As a nobleman, Friedrich zu Salm-Horstmar had a seat in the
Westphalian
Provincial Diet, in 1847/48 in the First United Parliament ('
) and Second United Diet (') and, since 1854, a hereditary seat in the
Prussian House of Lords, to which he belonged until his death in 1866. In 1856 he became an honorary member of the
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences and, in 1857, an honorary member of the
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. ==Personal life==