sentences:  Etschberg lay in the "Remigiusland", and thereby belonged from the time of its founding to the Church of Reims, although in terms of ecclesiastical organization it was subject to the Archbishopric of Mainz.Within the regional ecclesiastical organization the village belonged to the Church of Kusel during the Middle Ages and even into Early Modern Times.In the age of the Reformation, all the inhabitants converted first to Lutheranism and then on Count Palatine Johannes I's orders in 1588, they had to drop Martin Luther’s teachings and adopt Calvinism.