 In the course of the 1968 administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate, the mayoralty was dissolved and the villages of Sankt Julian-Obereisenbach, Eschenau and Gumbsweiler were amalgamated to form the greater municipality of Sankt Julian, which since 1972 has belonged to the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Lauterecken.The French Revolution and the French annexation from 1797 to 1815 brought with it its horrors, but also some advantages