Etschberg lay in French times from 1801 to 1814 in the Department of Sarre, the Arrondissement of Birkenfeld, the Canton of Kusel and the "Mairie" (“Mayoralty”) of Quirnbach. In the time that followed, when the Kingdom of Bavaria held sway, it lay within the "Bayerischer Rheinkreis" – the part of the Rhineland that the Congress of Vienna had awarded to Bavaria – in the "Landkommissariat" (district), Canton and "Bürgermeisterei" (“Mayoralty”) of Kusel. During the 1849 Palatine-Badish Uprising, the cantonal defence board gathered together 19 young men who had been recruited for the first contingent of Revolutionary troops. In the course of the events, which did not go the Revolutionaries’ way, these men were, however, not deployed.