sentences:  The Catholics were at this time tended by Wolfstein, while the few Catholics in the "Eßweiler Tal" before then belonged to Lauterecken, where there was a simultaneous church as early as 1725.Important in Eßweiler at one time was the rather great share of the population represented by Jews.Jewish families are known to have lived in Eßweiler in 1680, 1698, 1746, 1776 and 1780.