sentences:  In 1622, another wave of the Plague swept across the land during the Thirty Years' War leaving most villages all but depopulated.Time and again, as arranged by the lords who held the land, newcomers were brought in to settle the land again; from France, Switzerland and even the Tyrol they came, but the 1648 Peace of Westphalia failed to bring any calm to the land as French King Louis XIV waged his wars of conquest, turning the Palatinate into a battleground.Although the end of the politically and religiously motivated wars after 1700 soothed tensions somewhat, the land itself remained poor.