sentences:  This unity was lost in the Reformation, for in 1544, the villages of Eßweiler, Hinzweiler and Oberweiler im Tal were split away from the old parish and made into a new parish of their own based at Hinzweiler; the church in that village became the parish church, and that was also where the parish priest lived.This separation came along with the spread of Protestantism once the Waldgraves converted to Lutheranism.In 1595, the Dale passed to Palatinate-Zweibrücken, which required, under the principle of "cuius regio, eius religio", that everyone convert to the Reformed faith.