sentences:  In 1814, the French withdrew from the German lands on the Rhine’s left bank, and Brücken was at first assigned to the district of Ottweiler.After a transitional time – the changes brought about by the Congress of Vienna had not quite taken hold – the "Baierischer Rheinkreis" ("Bavarian Rhine District") came into being in 1816, later coming to be known as the "bayerische Rheinpfalz" ("Bavarian Rhenish Palatinate"), an exclave of the Kingdom of Bavaria.Brücken now lay within this new piece of Bavaria, and within the "Bürgermeisterei" ("Mayoralty") of Schönenberg, to which belonged not only Schönenberg itself, but also the villages of Kübelberg and Schmittweiler, and this "Bürgermeisterei" further belonged to the canton of Waldmohr in the "Landkommissariat" (later "Bezirksamt" and "Landkreis" or district) of Homburg.