Merzweiler 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 Lauterecken-Wolfstein. In Merzweiler, from the Middle Ages onwards, up to the late 16th century, stood a church. Whether the village was originally a self-administering parish is unknown. In the Late Middle Ages, the church was a branch of Medard. Since the village then belonged to the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, it was then subject to Zweibrücken ecclesiastical organization. That changed right away when Merzweiler was traded for Bosenbach and Staufenbach in 1595, and thereby ended up with the Rhinegraviate of Grumbach. It was then subject to Rhinegravial ecclesiastical organization. Merzweiler thus belonged first to the parish of Sulzbach, then passing to the parish of Grumbach when this became self-administering in 1808. In Zweibrücken times, the clergyman would hold services during the week at the Merzweiler church, while on Sundays he would hold them at the Kappeln church. About the church building itself little is known. A 1584 ecclesiastical visitation protocol noted that the church had fallen into disrepair and needed to be renovated. Obviously nothing came of this and the church was simply given up. There were never very many Catholics or Jews in Merzweiler in earlier days. More information...
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