Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1786, babban bishop na karshe na Trier, Clemens Wenceslaus na Saxony, ya taimaka sosai wajen fadada da inganta birnin, ya mai da Ehrenbreitstein ya zama babban fadar baroque. Bayan faduwar Bastille
a cikin 1789, garin ya zama, ta hanyar gayyatar babban ministan archbishop-zaɓaɓɓen, Ferdinand Freiherr von Duminique, ɗaya daga cikin manyan wuraren haɗuwa ga baƙi na Faransa. Babban bishop mai zaɓe ya amince da wannan domin shi kawun Sarki Louis na 16 ne da ake tsananta wa a Faransa. Daga cikin 'yan gudun hijirar Faransawa masu yawa da suka yi hijira zuwa birnin sun kasance' yan'uwan Louis XVI biyu, Comte de Provence da Comte d'Artois. Bugu da kari, dan uwan Louis XVI, Yarima Louis Joseph de Bourbon, yarima de Condé, ya isa ya kafa rundunar matasa masu son fada da juyin juya halin Faransa da kuma dawo da Ancien Régime. "Sojojin Condé" sun haɗu da rundunar sojojin Prussian da Austrian da Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand na Brunswick ya jagoranta a cikin mamayewar Faransa a 1792. Wannan ya jawo fushin Jamhuriyar Faransanci ta Farko a kan babban bishop-zaɓaɓɓen; a cikin 1794, sojojin juyin juya halin Faransa a ƙarƙashin Marceau (wanda aka kashe a lokacin kewaye), kuma, bayan sanya hannu kan Yarjejeniyar Lunéville (1801) an sanya shi babban birnin sabon sashen Faransa na Rhin-et-Moselle. A shekara ta 1814, Rasha ta mamaye shi. Majalisa ta Vienna ta ba da birnin ga Prussia, kuma a shekara ta 1822, an mai da shi wurin zama na gwamnatin lardin Rhine na Prussia.