Religion
Ehweiler lay in the Remigiusland and thereby was subject from its founding to the lordship of the Bishopric of Reims or the Abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims, although it belonged under ecclesiastical organization to the Archbishopric of Mainz. Under the principle of cuius regio, eius religio, all the inhabitants converted in the time of the Reformation, about 1537, to Lutheran beliefs. On Count Palatine Johannes I’s orders in 1588, there was yet another conversion, this one to Calvinism. Thus the population was until the 1818 Palatine Union – which saw the merger of the Lutheran and Calvinist faiths – overwhelmingly Reformed. Other denominations, foremost among these Lutheranism and Catholicism, had been allowed since the end of the Thirty Years' War, but their numbers of followers were not very significant. Even before the Reformation, Ehweiler inhabitants had been attending church in Kusel. Today, the village’s Protestants belong to the Evangelical parish and deaconry of Kusel, while the Catholics belong to the Catholic parish and deaconry of Kusel.
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