Thereafter the village formed a part of the Prussian Rhine Province and from 1871 a part of the German Empire. Following the abdication of the last emperor in 1918, the province was included in the newly established Free State of Prussia in the Weimar Republic; in 1920 it was made part of the League of Nations protectorate known as the "Saargebiet", until a plebiscite returned the territory to the German "Reich" in 1935. From the fall of the "Reich" in 1945, the area was part of the French occupied zone.