 The remaining 68 municipalities then bore the designation “Restkreis St. Wendel-Baumholder”, with the first syllable of "Restkreis" having the same meaning as in English, in the sense of “left over”.The district seat was at Baumholder.Reichweiler belonged to the Restkreis until 1 April 1937, when it was transferred to the Birkenfeld district.