 It would seem that the village was not stricken with the Plague, for death rates in Wahnwegen during the worst Plague years were not particularly high.On the other hand, the Thirty Years' War struck the village particularly hard.While before the war there had been up to five births noted in the Kusel church books for Wahnwegen each year, from 1632 until the war ended in 1648, only one wedding was recorded, and only two births.