 Gumbsweiler belonged during Revolutionary, and later Napoleonic, times to the "Mairie" ("Mayoralty") of Hundheim, the Canton of Lauterecken, the Arrondissement of Kaiserslautern and the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German), whose seat lay at Mainz.The "Mairie" of Hundheim became a mayoralty under Bavarian administration beginning in 1816, and for a while, Gumbsweiler was the biggest place within it.According to Mahler, writing in 1966, "The "Bürgermeisterei" ("Mayoralty") of Hundheim at first belonged to the so-called "Kreisdirektion Kaiserslautern" ("Kaiserslautern District Directorate"), but then after the formation of the "Landkommissariate" ("State Commissariates") in 1817 was assigned to the "Landkommissariat" of Kusel.