 After a transitional time, Odenbach was grouped into the "bayerischer Rheinkreis", later known as "Rheinpfalz" (“Rhenish Palatinate”), an exclave of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 with the rank of "Bürgermeisterei" (“mayoralty”).In the 1870s, three coal pits were opened and almost 500 miners were employed.In the course of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate, the 1,000-year-old administrative entity of Odenbach was dissolved in 1970, and the municipality was grouped into the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Lauterecken.