 It is likely that the villagers had to convert to Lutheran belief even before 1553, when Nußbach still belonged to the Waldgraviate-Rhinegraviate.In the time of the Reformation, the villages of Berzweiler and Nußbach, as well as the Ausbacherhof and the Naumburgerhof (estates) near Ginsweiler, belonged to the Lutheran parish of Reipoltskirchen.Originally, the Lords of Reipoltskirchen promoted the Protestant, but after the Thirty Years' War, the Catholic faith was able to reassert itself somewhat more strongly, and all the more so once the lordship itself chose to switch back to the old belief and even promote it.