sentences:  Sometime before the 14th century, this parish of the “new church” ("neue Kirche" in modern German, the same roots having given rise to the name “Neunkirchen”) was made partly subject to the parish of Deinsberg (Theisbergstegen).With the permanent introduction of the Reformation into the County Palatine of Zweibrücken about 1537, all subjects had to adopt Martin Luther’s teachings as their faith, and this included everybody in Föckelberg.Unlike what later happened in Palatinate-Zweibrücken, there was no further conversion to Calvinism in the County Palatine of Veldenz-Lützelstein, to which Föckelberg belonged as of 1543.