sentences:  After the reconquest of the German lands on the Rhine’s left bank, the first authority that held sway here was the jointly Austrian- and Bavarian-led "Landesadministrationskommission" (“State Administration Commission”), whose seat was at Bad Kreuznach, before 1815, when the Congress of Vienna divided the Canton of Grumbach.The village itself remained with the joint administration, only to pass on 1 July 1816 to the Kingdom of Prussia.Likewise at the Congress of Vienna, it was agreed that other princes who had participated in the Wars of Freedom should get a share of the compensation, and accordingly, there was a wholesale “trade in souls”, which saw Grumbach, among other places, ceded to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, which eventually named its newly created Palatine exclave the Principality of Lichtenberg on 24 February 1819.