sentences:  Worth noting in this era is the rise of fearsome sicknesses, above all, the Plague.In Blaubach, which had so few inhabitants to begin with, 22 persons died in the Plague year 1574 alone; in the Plague year 1597 it was a further 18.Nevertheless, the village did not die right out, for in the years after 1600, roughly two children were being born every year.