 During the time of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era that followed, the German lands on the Rhine’s left bank were annexed by France.Running along the Glan was the boundary between the Departments of Sarre and Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German).Lohnweiler lay in the latter, and also in the Arrondissement of Kaiserslautern, the Canton of Lauterecken and the "Mairie" (“Mayoralty”) of Lauterecken.