 Selchenbach lay in the "Remigiusland", thereby putting it under the authority of the Bishopric of Reims; parts were later owned by the Wörschweiler Monastery.Oberselchenbach, which belonged to the parish of Niederkirchen, had its own, small church, but this was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, and was never built again.By the traditional rule of "cuius regio, eius religio", all the inhabitants had to convert in the days of the Reformation according to their ducal rulers’ demands first to Lutheranism, and then later, in 1588, on Count Palatine Johannes I's orders, to Calvinism.