sentences:  At that time still a loyal supporter of the Bavarian king (all of whom were descendants of the Palatine Wittelsbachs, after all; the Bavarian cousins had died out in the mid 18th century), he was in 1832 one of the main initiators of the Hambach Festival, the most important demonstration for democracy – albeit disguised as a folk festival – in Vormärz Germany.In 1848, the municipalities of Sand and Gries split away from the "Bürgermeisterei" (“Mayoralty”) of Schönenberg, and until 1954 stood as a single municipality in their own right.Until 1920, Gries was part of the "Bezirksamt" of Homburg, as the State Commissariat was later called.