 After Lauterecken had been raised to town, likely in 1349, it might well have been that the nearby village of Lohnweiler could no longer hold its own with regard to religion and became a branch church of the one in Lauterecken.About 1530, under the Dukes of Zweibrücken, the Reformation was introduced, and everybody had to convert to Lutheran belief.A further conversion to Calvinism as in villages in the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken did not come about in Lohnweiler, for it had been since 1543 grouped into the new County Palatine of Veldenz.