Electorate of Cologne:

Quasi-countries under Reifferscheidian administration

 

This page covers territories under the sovereignty of the Electorate of Cologne, but administered by Reifferscheidian countries. Information that only applies prior to the period covered by the database is shown in italics.

 

Electorate of Cologne (adm. Salm-Reifferscheid/adm. shared btw. Salm-Reifferscheid & others)

 

• Simplified country name
  • Cologne-Reifferscheid (all but Fliesteden)
  • Cologne-Reifferscheid et al. (Fliesteden only) (1)
• Nation: Ecclesiastical Germany
• Predecessor: Electorate of Cologne (adm. Neuenahr-Alpen) (Bedbur, Fliesteden & Hackenbroich)
• Chronology
  • 1384: Quasi-country created when Reifferscheid acquires administrative rights over Bedbur and Fliesteden
  • 1442: Quasi-country suspended when Reifferscheid surrenders administrative rights over Bedbur and Fliesteden to Limburg-Broich
  • 1460: Reifferscheid renamed Salm-Reifferscheid
  • 1475: Quasi-country restored when Salm-Reifferscheid acquires administrative rights over Wevelinghoven and Alfter
  • 1546: Salm-Reifferscheid surrenders administrative rights over Wevelinghoven to Neuenahr-Alpen
  • 1559: Beginning of database for the Electorate of Cologne
  • 1589: Salm-Reifferscheid acquires administrative rights over Bedbur & Fliesteden (again) and Hackenbroich upon the extinction of Neuenahr-Alpen
  • 1639: Quasi-country terminated upon the partition of Reifferscheid
• Successors
  • Electorate of Cologne (adm. Salm-Reifferscheid-Bedburg) (Bedbur only)
  • Electorate of Cologne (adm. Salm-Reifferscheid-Bedburg & others) (Fliesteden only)
  • Electorate of Cologne (adm. Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck) (Alfter & Hackenbroich)

 

(1) Salm-Reifferscheid(-Bedburg) shared administration of Fliesteden with certain subjects of the Electorate of Cologne. I don’t know when that arrangement began, but I assume it was prior to 1559.