sentences:  Ginsweiler passed on 1 May 1816 to the "bayerischer Rheinkreis", or “Bavarian Rhine District”, the name given the Palatinate once the Congress of Vienna had awarded it to the Kingdom of Bavaria as an exclave.Ginsweiler then belonged to the "Bürgermeisterei" (“Mayoralty”) of Odenbach in the Canton of Lauterecken and the "Landkommissariat" of Kusel.In 1871, the German Empire was founded, but the Kingdom of Bavaria still existed within this.