sentences:  With administrative restructuring in 1972, the village lost its central-place function.The mayoralty and the taxation office were, in the face of the local populace's opposition, dissolved and by law reassigned to the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Glan-Münchweiler, a great loss for the municipality, which now had to make do with being nothing more than a population centre.A further cause of this decline was the rising industrial output and mass production of daily needs, the rise of supermarkets, the population's shift towards the throw-away society, unfavourable wage-price development in agriculture, craft occupations and the diamond industry, which sealed agriculture's and local business's fate.