sentences:  In this Bavarian time that followed, beginning in 1818, Konken became the seat of a "Bürgermeisterei" (“mayoralty”) within the "Baierischer Rheinkreis" (“Bavarian Rhine District”), the "Landkommissariat" (later "Bezirksamt", then "Landkreis") of Kusel and the Canton of Kusel.Later, the cantons only had a very minor meaning.In the course of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1968, the mayoralty of Konken was dissolved on 1 January 1972.