sentences:  Hitler’s success in these elections paved the way for his Enabling Act of 1933 ("Ermächtigungsgesetz"), thus starting the Third Reich in earnest.Since 1972, the municipality has belonged to the then newly founded "Verbandsgemeinde" of Kusel.According to the 1609 church visitation protocol of the "Oberamt" of Lichtenberg, only a few families lived in the village, earning their livelihoods as farmers and woodsmen.