sentences:  Like many other villages in the region, Hachenbach, too, was utterly destroyed in 1677 in the Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678) by French King Louis XIV's troops.Even though a 1755 agreement between Palatinate-Zweibrücken and the Rhinegraves of Grumbach resulted in the cession of five villages by the former back to the latter, Hachenbach remained with Zweibrücken and received a customs station at the bridge across the Glan, for Hachenbach had become a border village.This bridge, first built as a stone bridge in 1751/1752, was of special importance to the village.