sentences:  The same held true in neighbouring villages.Only under Duke Friedrich Ludwig, who ruled from 1661 to 1681, were there advances towards reconstruction.It was not long, though, before the region was stricken with yet more war, this time French King Louis XIV's Nine Years' War (known in Germany as the "Pfälzischer Erbfolgekrieg", or War of the Palatine Succession), which resulted in more hardship and woe.