sentences:  According to a 1609 ecclesiastical visitation protocol of the "Amt" of Lichtenberg, Körborn could be said to be, with a population of roughly 80 inhabitants, a rather big village for the time, but like almost all other villages in the area, it was wiped out in the course of the Thirty Years' War and by the Plague.After the war, the population rose only slowly, mostly with the arrival of newcomers.There were, however, further reductions in population due to French King Louis XIV's wars of conquest.