Religion
According to municipal statistics on 30 June 1997, 579 (60%) of Rammelsbach’s inhabitants were Evangelical, 259 (27%) were Roman Catholic, 38 (4%) would not state their religious affiliation, 67 (7%) claimed no religious faith and 2% of the inhabitants belonged to various smaller religious communities. Worshippers belonging to the two traditional big denominations (Evangelical and Catholic) were traditionally members of the parishes centred in Kusel. Only in the time after the Second World War did both the Evangelical and Catholic Christians form their own communities locally. After both the churches were built in 1954, these communities became autonomous, first as an Evangelical vicariate and a Catholic curacy, and then as of 1964, as independent parishes.
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