sentences:  From that time onwards, however, steady expansion with strong population growth set in, and already by the 18th century, some villagers were leaving to seek their fortunes abroad.In the time of Napoleonic French rule from 1801 to 1814, the village was the seat of a "mairie" (“mayoralty”) in the Department of Sarre, the Arrondissement of Birkenfeld and the Canton of Kusel.The Congress of Vienna grouped the region in 1816 with the Kingdom of Bavaria.