sentences:  During the time when Elzweiler belonged to the Rhinegraviate of Grumbach, however, it lay within the sway of the Eßweiler Tal and the "Hirsauer Kirche" (an ancient country church, still standing today, near Offenbach-Hundheim), and later the Church of Hinzweiler.At the time of the Reformation, the village belonged to the Rhinegraviate of Grumbach, and accordingly, under the principle of "cuius regio, eius religio", Elzweiler's inhabitants, like all Rhinegravial subjects, had to convert to Lutheranism in 1556.When the village was incorporated into the County Palatine of Zweibrücken, the Zweibrücken subjects had already converted to Calvinism, and Elzweiler's inhabitants now had to follow suit.