 This may have been the way that Niederstaufenbach and Oberstaufenbach were distinguished from each other in the Late Middle Ages.According to another version of events, "Lochstaufenbach" was the part of the village that had belonged to the Duchy of Palatinate-Veldenz, but passed to the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken in a “regional reform” in 1600.Beginning with the Reformation and until the Thirty Years' War ended, all Niederstaufenbach’s inhabitants belonged first to the Lutheran faith, and then as of 1588 to the Calvinist (Reformed) faith.