sentences:  Only in 2002 was it decided in a bilateral agreement between the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland that the municipality’s two parts should be brought together under one administration.This was signed in 2003 and came into force on 1 January 2004.Today, the whole village of Herchweiler belongs as an "Ortsgemeinde" to the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Kusel-Altenglan.