sentences:  Thus, for almost 400 years, Herschweiler-Pettersheim could play an important role in local administration and it did the village good.It had, compared to neighbouring villages, many facilities, such as post, constabulary and doctor, and by 1890 it was already a cultural hub.In the course of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate after the Second World War, there was a thorough reorganization of the new state, and in the Kusel district, seven new "Verbandsgemeinden" were founded, thus putting an end to the long tradition of Herschweiler-Pettersheim being an administrative centre.