sentences:  In 1609, there were 137 houses standing in Erdesbach, and the village's population was about 500, but by the time the Thirty Years' War was over, the village had all but died out, just like so many villages in the Kusel region.New families came to Erdesbach, but French King Louis XIV's wars of conquest brought further death and destruction.Only in the early 18th century did any strong population growth once more begin.