sentences:  It can, however, be gathered from the 1734 list of subjects that of the then 33 inhabitants, 14 were Lutheran, 11 were Catholic and indeed only seven were Reformed.This rather striking variety in the denominations represented in the village can be explained by new settlers coming to repopulate the village after the Thirty Years' War and during French King Louis XIV's occupation.In the late 17th century, the French promoted the Roman Catholic faith, while the Swedish kings, who then held sway in the County Palatine, did the same with the Lutheran faith.