 After Napoleonic times, beginning in 1816, Krottelbach was in Bavaria's "Rheinkreis" in the "Landkommissariat" (later "Bezirksamt"; later still district) of Kusel and the canton of Kusel, as well as the "Bürgermeisterei" (“Mayoralty”) of Konken.This administrative structure was to last up to administrative and territorial reform in 1968.Since 1972, Krottelbach has belonged as a self-administering "Ortsgemeinde" to the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Glan-Münchweiler.