 As can be seen from statistics, though, that had no particular effect either for Matzenbach or for many other villages around the Potzberg.On the other hand, many Christians who followed John Calvin’s Reformed teachings came here and settled who had hardly set foot in other parts of the County Palatine of Veldenz.These Calvinists at first owned within the "Ämter" of Lauterecken and Reichenbach one church, which stood in Neunkirchen am Potzberg.