sentences:  The French agent, Haupt, however, allowed several townsmen from Kusel to take the bricks from the stable in 1796.Thereafter, wood and bricks were constantly being stolen, leading Etienne to decide that same year to auction various stables, kennels and coachhouses off on 18 March 1796 to be torn down for their building materials, to prevent the last usable buildings from being illegally broken up and carted off by the local people.What was left after that of the former Palatinate-Zweibrücken hunting lodge was likewise auctioned off a few years later by the French after they had declared it national property.