sentences:  The remaining 68 municipalities then bore the designation "Restkreis St. Wendel-Baumholder", with the first syllable of "Restkreis" having the same meaning as in English, in the sense of "left over".Kirrweiler belonged to this district until 1937, when it was transferred to the Birkenfeld district, which was created by uniting the "Restkreis" with a former Oldenburg district, also called Birkenfeld.This now lay within the "Regierungsbezirk" of Koblenz, and still in Prussia, although since the Kaiser had abdicated in 1917, it was no longer a kingdom.