sentences:  It was also at this time that emigration to America began.In 1779, the court of Kübelberg, and along with it the village of Altenkirchen, passed in the course of a territorial reorganization between Electoral Palatinate and the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken by way of exchange to the latter party for the villages of Duchroth and Oberhausen and part of the village of Niederkirchen, which until then had been held by Zweibrücken.This was also a transfer from the Electoral Palatinate "Oberamt" of Kaiserslautern to the Zweibrücken "Oberamt" of Homburg.