 In 1774, though, a branch church linked with the one in Neunkirchen sprang up in Gimsbach.Matzenbach now had Christians of the Lutheran, Reformed and Roman Catholic denominations.After the union of the Lutheran and Reformed Churches in 1818, the great majority of Matzenbach's inhabitants belonged to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate (since 1976 the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate) in the Gimsbach branch church of Neunkirchen within the deaconry of Kusel.