Johann Dominik zu Salm-Kyrburg

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Johann XI. Dominik Albert Prince of Salm-Kyrburg , also Johann Dominik of Salm-Neufville-Leuze (* July 26, 1708 , † June 2, 1778 in Kirn ), was the 1st Prince of Salm-Kyrburg and as such an imperial prince in the Holy Roman Rich .

Life

Johann Dominik, scion of the obersalmischen line of the noble family Salm , was a grandson of the general Karl Florentin zu Salm as well as the firstborn of two sons of the wild and Rhine Count Heinrich Gabriel zu Salm-Kyrburg (also Salm- Leuze , 1674-1716) and the Marie Thérèse de Croÿ (1678–1713), daughter of Philippe François Albert de Croÿ, marquis de Warneck (1645–1710). He himself remained unmarried.

On February 21, 1743, he was raised to the rank of imperial prince by Emperor Charles VII, along with his younger, sex-reproducing brother, Philipp Joseph , with whom he jointly ruled over the inherited and married territories . At the Reichstag in Regensburg , the brothers - alternating with their cousin Nikolaus Leopold zu Salm-Salm - shared the Salmic virile vote in the Imperial Council from 1738 , which had existed since 1654 after the Prince of Philip Otto zu Salm in 1623 .

With Nikolaus Leopold zu Salm-Salm, whom his father-in-law Ludwig Otto zu Salm had initially designated as the heir of his territories, the brothers contractually agreed in 1744 on a division of this inheritance, after which Nikolaus Leopold received the County of Salm in the Vosges and the rule of Vinstingen , she herself the Oberamt Kyrburg. This division led to the creation of the Salm-Salm and Salm-Kyrburg lines. The latter was named after the Kyrburg , the last fortified castle on the Nahe , which was destroyed by the French military in 1734 in the course of the War of the Polish Succession , before the counter-order of Louis XV obtained by Prince zu Salm . arrived.

After Johann Dominik had lived for many years at the Viennese court, where he is said to have been addicted to gambling, he retired to Kirn around 1750. There he acquired a good reputation for economic and efficient business. He paid off the state debt, which had run to 120,000 guilders. The sale of Dutch properties brought him 123,000 guilders. In 1759 he settled the Piarists . In addition, according to plans by the court architect Johann Thomas Petry, he began a demanding building program, especially for Kirn, which was to develop into a tranquil baroque residence. The government chancellery was built from 1760 to 1765, a garrison building in Kyrburg around 1764, and the Princely Cellar from 1769 to 1771. In 1764 he bought the town of Sien from the Lords of Sickingen and built a castle there until 1771 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family table of the princes of Salm-Kyrburg . In: Johann Christoph Gatterer : Handbook of the latest genealogy and heraldry . Verlag der Raspischen Handlung, Nuremberg 1762, p. 75 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Winfried Dotzauer : History of the Nahe-Hunsrück area from the beginnings to the French Revolution . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07878-9 , p. 366 ( Google Books )
  3. ^ Carl Eduard Vehse : History of the German courts since the Reformation . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1858, Volume 41, p. 41 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Salm-Kyrburg, Johann Dominik zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salm-Kyrburg, Johann XI. Dominik Albert Fürst zu (full name); Salm-Neufville-Leuze, Johann Dominik zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION 1. Prince of Salm-Kyrburg, Imperial Prince in the Holy Roman Empire
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1708
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1778
Place of death Kirn