Veldenz passed to his son-in-law, Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken. Stephen passed it to his second son, Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken. Early modern times About 1637, the family Winneburg-Beilstein, the Braunshorns’ heirs, died out. The lordship was taken over by the family Metternich, but only years later, about 1652. About 1776, the greater County of Sponheim was split up, with the “three-lord” part passing to Palatine Zweibrücken. Under the treaties of 1780 and 1784, the “three-lord” territory was itself dismembered. The Lords of Winneburg-Beilstein, or rather their successors, came into possession of the Vogtei of Strimmig. Beginning in 1794, Mittelstrimmig lay under French rule. 19th century In 1814 or 1815, Mittelstrimmig was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Despite greater freedom of travel, begging and vagrancy remained punishable. The problem of those with no fixed address, without social safeguards or possibility of taking care of their own livelihoods also affected the villages on the Strimmiger Berg. About 1842, the Prussian government passed a law requiring every Prussian citizen to have a permanent domicile, and requiring every municipality to house any family that was willing to settle. Many members of Prussian society's homeless wanderers seized the opportunity. This led in the villages on the Strimmiger Berg to the establishment of what were called Ortsteile Klein-Frankreich (roughly “Little France Neighbourhoods”). The dwellers of these new neighbourhoods were ordinary municipal citizens, but the long-established villagers continued to exclude them socially. Between 1817 and 1830, Mittelstrimmig, like the other municipalities, was self-administering. The 19th century was in Mittelstrimmig, as it was throughout Germany, a time of yearning to emigrate to the United States, for the region that now makes up Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse was seething with political discontent at this time, and there was a dearth of gainful work. After the French Revolution had ended, hopes began to grow that the social situation would become better. This, however, did not happen. On 26 May 1852, 151 persons (56 of whom were 14 or younger) left Mittelstrimmig for New York on the U.S. ship Henry Clay, landing there on 13 June of the same year. They made their new homes in Michigan and Wisconsin in, among other places, Green Bay, Washington County, Sheboygan, Milwaukee, Germantown, Farmington, Cedarburg and Appleton. Another wave of emigration followed in July of the very next year. This saw 39 persons leave, also bound