 When Homburg was grouped into the autonomous Saar area after the First World War, the Canton of Waldmohr remained with the newly formed Free State of Bavaria – the Kaiser had been overthrown and so had the Bavarian king – and thereby with Weimar Germany.The canton belonged to the "Bezirksamt" of Kusel with an administrative branch of its own, which it retained until 1940, whereafter the Canton of Waldmohr was administered directly from Kusel.Thus, Steinbach belonged to the Kusel district, but remained part of the "Bürgermeisterei" of Glan-Münchweiler.