sentences:  Hoppstädten at first still lay in the Bad Kreuznach district within the "Regierungsbezirk" of Koblenz, and in the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.In the course of administrative restructuring in the state in 1968, Hoppstädten was taken from Bad Kreuznach and was reassigned to the Kusel district.In 1972, it passed to the newly founded "Verbandsgemeinde" of Lauterecken and at the same time to the likewise newly founded "Regierungsbezirk" of Rheinhessen-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate has since abolished its system of "Regierungsbezirke").