sentences:  After they had occupied the whole left bank of the Rhine, Norath belonged to the subprefecture of Simmern, the canton of St. Goar and the "Mairie" (“Mayoralty”) of Pfalzfeld.For a time, between 1813 and 1842, the mayor had his official seat in Norath (the Mayoralty was by now called a "Bürgermeisterei" under the Prussians), but as of 1843, the mayor's office had moved back to Pfalzfeld.It cannot be denied that the French under Napoleon did much for the Rhineland.