 The German lands on the Rhine’s left bank were annexed by France.Langenbach now lay in the "Mairie" ("Mayoralty") of Konken, the Canton of Kusel, the Arrondissement of Birkenfeld and the Department of Sarre.After French rule ended, Langenbach lay beginning in 1816 in the "Baierischer Rheinkreis", a new exclave of the Kingdom of Bavaria created by the Congress of Vienna, and more locally in the "Landkommissariat" (later "Bezirksamt" and "Landkreis" or district) of Kusel, the Canton of Kusel and the "Bürgermeisterei" ("Mayoralty") of Konken.