Wahnwegen 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. Wahnwegen lay in the Remigiusland, and thereby was originally subject to the lordship of the Bishopric of Reims, but in terms of ecclesiastical administration, it belonged to the Archbishopric of Mainz. Going by the then customary principle of cuius regio, eius religio, when the Reformation was introduced about 1534, all subjects, as required by the newly converted Ducal administration, likewise had to convert, to Lutheranism, and then in 1588, on Count Palatine Johannes I's orders, to Calvinism. After the Thirty Years' War, it was theoretically possible to choose one's religion, although the villagers in Wahnwegen remained overwhelmingly Calvinist, or at least generally Protestant after the Lutheran and Reformed faiths were united in 1817. From the Middle Ages, the villagers were members of the Church of Kusel. In 1869, the villages of Wahnwegen and Hüffler joined together into their own parish, ministering to which was a vicar who was responsible only for these two villages. The school in the neighbouring village of Hüffler made a room available for church services. Today, there is also a municipal building in Wahnwegen at the Evangelical church's disposal. Otherwise the original arrangement remains unchanged. The village's Catholic Christians belong, as they always have, to the parish of Kusel. More information...
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