 University towns in the broader region are Kaiserslautern (Kaiserslautern University of Technology), Saarbrücken (Saarland University), Trier (University of Trier) and Mainz (University of Mainz, University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Catholic University of Applied Sciences Mainz).What follows is school history for Matzenbach's three centres.Schooling had its beginning in Matzenbach with the feudal lords’ efforts during the time of the Reformation to further education so that their subjects could have access to Holy Writ.