 Bavaria’s new exclave was thereupon subdivided into "Landkommissariate" (now "Landkreise", or districts).The "Landkommissariate" were further subdivided into cantons ("Kantonen"), and these were yet further subdivided into "Bürgermeistereien" (“mayoralties”).Beginning at this time, Schellweiler belonged to the "Bürgermeisterei" of Kusel, and has even remained in the now "Verbandsgemeinde" of Kusel, which was formed in 1972.