 Lohnweiler now lay in the "Regierungsbezirk" of Pfalz within this state, and then after restructuring in the "Regierungsbezirk" of Rheinhessen-Pfalz, which has since been dissolved along with Rhineland-Palatinate’s other "Regierungsbezirke".In the course of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1968, Lohnweiler passed as a self-administering "Ortsgemeinde" to the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Lauterecken.The village has remained rurally structured.