sentences:  In 1609, according to the ecclesiastical visitation protocol of Baumholder, 50 persons in 10 families lived in Trahweiler.The Thirty Years' War and French King Louis XIV's wars of conquest claimed many victims, and for a time, the village was almost empty of people.Newcomers raised the population figures back up, and beginning in the 18th century, there were once more people migrating out of the village.