Now that Breitenbach belonged to the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, the village shared a history with this state, until Palatinate-Zweibrücken met its end when all former feudal states were swept away in the French Revolution. The village first belonged to the "Oberamt" of Zweibrücken and was the seat of its own "Schultheißerei", but then in 1768 passed to the "Oberamt" of Homburg and the "Schultheißerei" of Waldmohr. Although Breitenbach lay within Palatinate-Zweibrücken, it also lay right at the border with the "Oberamt" of Lichtenberg, which lay within the County of Nassau-Saarbrücken. In his 1564 "Beschreibung der Ämter Zweibrücken und Kirkel" (“Description of the "Ämter" of Zweibrücken and Kirkel”), Tilemann Stella outlined the path taken by the border, beginning with a "Markstein", or “marchstone”, which apparently marked a tripoint. His account is written in very archaic spelling, but is still perfectly intelligible, if a bit dry, dealing mostly with a number of borderstones and the number of paces between each and the next.