sentences:  Hefersweiler became the seat of a "mairie" (“mayoralty”), to which Berzweiler also belonged, within the French First Republic.This "mairie" in turn lay in the Canton of Wolfstein, the Arrondissement of Kaiserslautern and the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German).After the 1814 reconquest of the German lands on the Rhine’s left bank by Prussian, Austrian and Russian troops, the region passed after a transitional period to the Kingdom of Bavaria.