Abtweiler is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Meisenheim, whose seat is in the like-named town. Abtweiler's church had its first documentary mention in the 14th century. According to the 1333 agreement, the income from the forest, which was shared half and half by Staudernheim and Hene (Hühnerhof), was to be used to build the chapel in Appwilre. In 1342, this chapel was named as belonging under Blessed Nicholas’s Parish Church (Pfarrkirche “Beati Nycolai”) on the Disibodenberg. Going by the building’s form, however, the church that stands today can only be dated as far back as the 15th century, since the quire and the nave are mentioned one after the other after a short interruption. After the Reformation, the church belonged as a branch to Odernheim, and in 1604 – possibly after the village passed to the House of Steinkallenfels – to Boos. Later, Abtweiler was temporarily a parish in its own right, but was now and then served together with Odernheim, Lauschied and Staudernheim, with which it was united in 1815, an arrangement that has not changed. The right to appoint the parish priest was held until 1560 by the Disibodenberg Monastery, and thereafter by the Dukes of Palatinate-Zweibrücken. As at 31 August 2013, there are 211 fulltime residents in Abtweiler, and of those, 141 are Evangelical (66.825%), 40 are Catholic (18.957%), 1 is Lutheran (0.474%), 1 (0.474%) belongs to another religious group and 28 (13.27%) either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation. More information...
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