 Although the Reformed faith according to John Calvin's teaching was never promoted by the state in the County Palatine of Veldenz, there nevertheless came to be, by and by, quite a number of Christians of this denomination in Gimsbach, numbers that could have been strengthened by newcomers from the neighbouring Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken.Said to be the hub for those of the Reformed faith in the "Ämter" of Lauterecken and Reichenbach was at first the Reformed church in Neunkirchen.Of course, having the Potzberg with its steep slopes standing between them and their church made it quite hard for the Calvinists to attend services, and thus in 1774 in Gimsbach, another Reformed church arose, which was financed with donations from all over the world.