sentences:  After Napoleonic times and the Congress of Vienna, when Albessen found itself in the Kingdom of Bavaria beginning in 1816, there was a new territorial arrangement.Within the "Rheinkreis" (that is, the Palatinate, which had now become a Bavarian exclave), the village now lay within the "Landkommissariat" (later "Bezirksamt", then "Landkreis" or “rural district”) of Kusel and at the same time in the Canton of Kusel, as under Napoleonic rule.The cantons later had little meaning, with the "Bürgermeistereien" (“mayoralties”) having more importance.