sentences:  In the 16th century and the earlier half of the 17th, Kirrweiler was a rather big village.In 1642, towards the war's end, there were still many households (23 according to one source; 32 according to another), whereas the villages in the broader surrounding area had for the most part been wiped right out by the effects of the Thirty Years' War.Among these households was the "Kirrweiler Hof" (estate), which belonged to the Waldgraves and Rhinegraves of Grumbach.