 By that time, the Congress of Vienna had already decided two days earlier that the Palatinate should be annexed to the Kingdom of Bavaria.After a transitional period, the Congress of Vienna established the "Baierischer Rheinkreis", later known as the "Rheinpfalz" (Rhenish Palatinate), a newly formed exclave of the Kingdom of Bavaria.Even then, the centres either side of the Glan remained administratively split.