The Reformation could not be spread by the catholic rule of the Electorate of Trier and the Duchy of Lorraine. In the neighbor-village Diefflen, Saarwellingen, which was under the sovereignty of the Lords of Kriechingen, the Reformation was enforced. However, with the reunification policy of King Louis XIV of France and the construction of the fortress of Saarlouis, here too, as well as in Schwalbach, Reisweiler, Eiweiler and Überherrn, the only superficially Protestantised church ended.