sentences:  During the French Revolution and Napoleonic times, Horschbach lay within the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German), whose seat was at Mainz, the Canton of Wolfstein and the Arrondissement of Kaiserslautern.After French rule ended and Napoleon met his ultimate political fate at Waterloo, the Congress of Vienna awarded a great swathe of territory in this region to the Kingdom of Bavaria, and by 1817, Horschbach found itself within this exclave, called the "Bayerischer Rheinkreis" (“Bavarian Rhine District”).More locally, it lay within the "Landcommissariat" (later "Bezirksamt", later still "Landkreis" or district) of Kusel and the Canton of Wolfstein.