On April 4, 1792, French revolutionary troops planted a liberty linden tree on Stromburg, which was destroyed on March 3, 1689.
There was heavy fighting near Stromberg against the Prussians approaching in the north, in which the French General Custine deployed around 12,000 men.
The new laws of the French revolutionary period were also introduced in the Middle East in 1796. Accordingly, all sovereigns were deprived of their rule and all Electoral Palatinates were dissolved, thus ending the small states of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
Stromberg became the seat of a canton in Rhin-et-Moselle with 27 towns and 7,943 inhabitants. A final contract was concluded regarding the fate of the left bank of the Rhine. According to the Treaty of Lunéville of 1801, the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation had to cede this area completely to France.
From 1805 onwards, the Nahe region was again only used for troops to pass through. Sometimes residents from here were also sent to the front as French citizens. The Mayor of Stromberg sent 97 men between 1800 and 1814.
The Prussian General Yorck set off from Wartenburg to Stromberg on New Year's Eve at 11 a.m., where he set up his quarters until January 4, 1814. General Blücher also stopped in Stromberg in 1814 during the wars of liberation.
Under the Prussians until the end of the First World War
According to the Congress of Vienna, the Near region had now been handed over to the Prussians, who, however, were more interested in ruling over Poland or Saxony. The population was also neither consulted nor taken into account, so that they behaved negatively towards the Prussians and considered everything to be a kind of interim government. The first half of the 19th century was not exactly rosy and brought with it numerous years of hardship.