Ruthweiler 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 Kusel-Altenglan, whose seat is in Kusel. As one of the villages within the Castle Lichtenberg Burgfrieden, people from Ruthweiler always attended services at the church at Castle Lichtenberg, which from the Middle Ages to early modern times was Saint George’s Chapel, and as of 1758 the newly built church near the tithe barn. Ludwig II, Duke of Zweibrücken, who died in 1532, was already a supporter of the Reformation, which was introduced bindingly, and according to Martin Luther’s teachings, for all the duchy’s subjects under Ludwig’s brother, Ruprecht, who was acting as regent for Duke Wolfgang, who had not yet come of age. Beginning in 1588, Count Palatine Johannes I forced all his subjects to convert to Reformed belief as espoused by John Calvin. In the Saxe-Cobourg Principality of Lichtenberg and later on, in the Prussian Rhine Province, the Protestant church establishment in Ruthweiler found its way into today’s Evangelical Church in the Rhineland (a full member of the Evangelical Church in Germany). The Duke of Saxe-Cobourg decreed the merger of the two Protestant denominations in 1818, and the decision handed down by a synod in Baumholder in 1820 instituted the “complete union” of the two denominations, Lutheranism and Calvinism. The now united Evangelical Church of the Principality of Lichtenberg belonged in Prussian times after 1834 within the Rhenish Provincial Church to the church district of Sankt Wendel. Fundamentally, this organizational structure remains in place even today. The municipality got its first graveyard in 1828. Formerly, the dead had had to be buried in either Pfeffelbach or Kusel. The new graveyard came into being in 1925. Although the Catholic faith was once again allowed after the Thirty Years' War, Evangelical Christians have retained their majority down to the present day. The village's Roman Catholics, as guided by their historical development, belong to the deaconry of Sankt Wendel in the Diocese of Trier. More information...
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