 Thereafter, Reichweiler belonged to the "Mairie" (“Mayoralty”) of Bourglichtenberg, the Canton of Coussel (Kusel), the Arrondissement of Birkenfeld and the Department of Sarre.The Revolutionary, later Napoleonic, French were eventually driven out.On 12 January 1814, under the Basel Resolution, the victorious powers established a joint administration under which Reichweiler belonged to the General Government of Middle Rhine ("Mittelrhein") and the Department of Saar, whose seat was at Trier, and later Koblenz.