sentences:  It remained Bavarian until 1945, at least the greater part of the village.Herchweiler still remained split in two, only now, the two parts found themselves in different countries.While the greater part of the village that had been in the Canton of Kusel passed to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816, the "Judengasse", which had been in the Canton of St. Wendel, instead passed to the Principality of Lichtenberg, a newly created exclave of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, which as of 1826 became the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.