Dittweiler is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Oberes Glantal, whose seat is in Schönenberg-Kübelberg. Before the Reformation, Dittweiler belonged to the Parish Church of Ohmbach and therefore evidently shared its history. After Prince-Elector Ottheinrich had introduced the Reformation into Electoral Palatinate in 1556, Dittweiler was grouped into the parish of Altenkirchen. On the principle of cuius regio, eius religio, the inhabitants had to adopt the faith thus prescribed for Electoral Palatinate, which was Lutheranism, as taught by, of course, Martin Luther. Owing to the former allegiance to the Church of Ohmbach, however, there were still strong ties to the Wörschweiler Monastery, which lay in the County Palatine of Zweibrücken, and to which the village owed one third of its tithes. These were paid to the Dukes of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, who had taken the monastery estate into their ownership after the Reformation. After the Thirty Years' War, there was freedom of religion, and newcomers to the now depopulated village brought other Christian denominations with them. These were mostly Calvinists, although there were also a few Catholics among them. Their share of the population in the early 19th century was almost 10%, but nowadays it is somewhat more than 5%. More information...
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