, residence of the Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck branch in 2011 Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck was a partition of
Salm-Reifferscheid, divided between two grandsons of the ruling family in 1649. The Salm-Reifferscheids ruled the Dyck Land
Absolutely until the French invasion in 1795. It was annexed in 1811 by the
First French Empire in the
French Revolutionary Wars. The county was
mediatised to the
Kingdom of Prussia in 1813. Three years later in 1816, as compensation for their loss, the Head of the family was raised to the title of
Fürst in
Prussia, but without the material rights of the lords of the manor (since, according to Prussian legal theory, they were not part of the Empire), such as tax exemptions, official police, free use of hunting, etc. the style was assumed by their closest
agnatic cousins,
Princes of
Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim. Upon the death of
Franz Josef, Prince and Count of Salm-Reiferscheid in 1958, the male line of
Salm-Reifferscheidt-Krautheim and Dyck became extinct. The full princely style was
Imperial Prince of Salm, Duke of Hoogstraten, Forest Count of Dhaun and Kyrburg, Rhine Count of Stein, Lord of Diemeringen and Anholt. ==Counts of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck (1639–1806)==