sentences:  Louis XIV's occupation (1688-1696) promoted "Recatholicization", and members of the Catholic faith could once again be found in the Herschweiler-Pettersheim area, but mostly in small communities within towns.Calvinism's privileged status was thus limited.Only after the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick, under whose terms the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken was awarded to King Karl XII of Sweden, putting the Duchy in personal union with Sweden and giving Karl XII the title of Duke of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, was ecclesiastical development set on new paths.