 In 1697, Electoral Palatinate troops showed up, and the "Amt" of Lauterecken was now ruled by Electoral Palatinate.The dispute was settled in 1733 with the Veldenz Succession Treaty of Mannheim, under whose terms the "Ämter" of Veldenz and Lauterecken passed wholly to Electoral Palatinate, and the former Palatine-Veldenz "Amt" of Lauterecken was permanently given the status of an Electoral Palatinate "Oberamt", after it had already been occupied by Electoral Palatinate troops in 1697 anyway.Johann Goswin Widder wrote in 1788 in his work "Geographische Beschreibung der Kur=Pfalz" the following about Lohnweiler, among other things