sentences:  Since the end of the Second World War, when the Palatinate was split off from Bavaria, the village has lain in the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.Originally part of the "Bürgermeisterei" (“Mayoralty”) of Horschbach, in the course of the 1968 administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate, Elzweiler was grouped into the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Altenglan.According to a 1515 description of the Eßweiler Tal, Elzweiler was made up of only two residents, or perhaps households.