sentences:  The administrative structures that had arisen in Napoleonic times were swept aside and Altenkirchen was then assigned to the "Landkommissariat" of Zweibrücken.In 1818, the village became the seat of its own "Bürgermeisterei" (“mayoralty”) to which Dittweiler and Frohnhofen (and at first also Breitenbach) also belonged, and which lay in the canton of Waldmohr and the "Landkommissariat" (later "Bezirksamt", and then "Landkreis", or district) of Homburg.In 1848 and 1849, the Kohlbach valley, where Altenkirchen lies, hosted a centre of the Revolutionary movement, in which the schoolteacher Daniel Hirsch is worthy of mention for, among other things, having founded a popular association.