sentences:  In 1594, the village passed together with Niedereisenbach, Hachenbach, Horschbach and the villages in the Eßweiler Tal to Palatinate-Zweibrücken in exchange for Kirchenbollenbach.Thereafter, Elzweiler remained with the County Palatine until its downfall after French Revolutionary troops began their occupation.During the time of French rule from 1801 to 1814, Elzweiler lay in the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German), whose seat was in Mainz, in the Arrondissement of Kaiserslautern and in the Canton of Wolfstein.