sentences:  Aschbach now belonged to the "Bürgermeisterei" (“Mayoralty”) of Hundheim in the Canton (District) of Lauterecken and in the "Landkommissariat" (later "Bezirksamt", and later still "Landkreis", or district) of Kusel.Further changes came with the 1968 regional and administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate.Since 1971, the "Ortsgemeinde" of Aschbach has belonged within the Kusel district to the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Wolfstein.