sentences:  In the Thirty Years' War, there was no great amount of fighting, but many times various armies marched through the area, plundering and destroying; one mill in Eßweiler fell victim to their destructive ways (it was restored in 1661).Between 1635 and 1638, the villagers also had the Plague to deal with, which had cropped up sporadically before this.Subsequent wars, too, brought their own miseries as the region once again became a military route.