 The Palatinate was grouped into the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate, which itself undertook administrative restructuring in 1968.Thus, since 1 January 1972, Nerzweiler has belonged within the Kusel district to the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Lauterecken.Nerzweiler was throughout the Middle Ages a small village, whose very existence was often threatened by such things as Plague and war.