 Nerzweiler passed together with the villages of Aschbach, Hinzweiler, Hachenbach and Gumbsweiler to the newly founded "Mairie" (“Mayoralty”) of Hundheim, which itself belonged to the Canton of Lauterecken and the Arrondissement of Kaiserslautern.After the victory over Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna awarded a territory on the Rhine to the Kingdom of Bavaria, the "Baierischer Rheinkreis" (“Bavarian Rhine District”), later known as the "Bayerische Rheinpfalz" (“Bavarian Rhenish Palatinate”).Nerzweiler now belonged within this territory to the "Bürgermeisterei" (“Mayoralty”) of Hundheim in the Canton of Lauterecken and the "Landkommissariat" (later "Bezirksamt", and later still "Landkreis" or District) of Kusel.