sentences:  The Treaty of Campo Formio had mandated this cession.Until 1814, Ginsweiler was ruled by the French.After territorial reorganization, Ginsweiler lay in the "Mairie" (“Mayoralty”) of Odenbach, the Canton of Lauterecken, the Arrondissement of Kaiserslautern and the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German).