 During the time of French rule from 1801 to 1814, Niederstaufenbach belonged to the "Mairie" (“Mayoralty”) of Bosenbach, the Canton of Wolfstein, the Arrondissement of Kaiserslautern and the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German).In 1816, under terms laid out by the Congress of Vienna, the "Baierischer Rheinkreis" (“Bavarian Rhine District”) was founded, a new exclave of the Kingdom of Bavaria.Niederstaufenbach now lay in the "Landcommissariat" (later "Bezirksamt" and then "Landkreis" or district) of Kusel, but still in the Canton of Wolfstein.