 As was so throughout the annexed lands that the French now ruled, young men from Oberalben, too, had to serve in the French army.Still preserved now is the content of two letters written home by such a soldier from Oberalben.After Napoleon had been driven out of the region, the Congress of Vienna set forth a new political order, whereby Oberalben and the Mayweilerhof found themselves in the "baierischer Rheinkreis", a new exclave of the Kingdom of Bavaria.