sentences:  At last the reconstruction forged ahead.From various parts of Germany and, foremost, from Switzerland, newcomers began settling in the Duchy's domains, which the war had left almost empty of people.The only families that came back after the Thirty Years' War, in 1670 (22 years after the war had ended) were the families Veith, Schneider and Scherer in Herschweiler's case and the families Trapp and Maurer in Pettersheim's.