 Because Thallichtenberg and Burglichtenberg lay in the Principality of Lichtenberg, which was part of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and later in Prussia's Rhine Province, the Evangelical Christians in the village today belong to the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.In 1818, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg brought about the merger of the two Reformed denominations, and the resolution of an 1820 synod in Baumholder in turn brought about the “full unification” of these two denominations.In Prussian times, after 1834, the church district of Sankt Wendel came into being within the Rhenish Church.