 In 1588, though, when Palatinate-Zweibrücken, then headed by Duke Johannes I, commanded all its subjects to convert to Calvinism, the Counts of Leyen resisted this order within their lordly domain.The valley's Christians kept their Lutheran faith, but were subject to an ecclesiastical administration that was directed from Zweibrücken.After the Thirty Years' War, the law conferred religious freedom, and indeed, among the newcomers to Steinbach, particularly at the time of King Louis XIV's War of the Reunions, were a great many Catholics.