Politically, after the "Amt" of Schmidtburg was dissolved and after its short time in the French canton of Rhaunen in Napoleonic times, from 1817 to 1937 Bundenbach was part of the Grand Duchy and Free State of Oldenburg, and more locally to the Principality (later Province) of Birkenfeld. In the course of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate, Bundenbach passed from the "Amt" of Herrstein to the "Verbandsgemeinde" Herrstein-Rhaunen in the Birkenfeld district (and also in the "Regierungsbezirk" of Koblenz, although Rhineland-Palatinate abolished "Regierungsbezirke" in 1999) in 1970.