 In the Thirty Years War, Imperial-Catholic troops pillaged the town after the battle of Nördlingen on September 8, 1634 and, in 1635, a further disaster occurred with an outbreak of the plague.Nearly a third of the population of village lost their lives in this war.By 1850 Weil im Schönbuch contained 2453 Protestant and 21 Catholic inhabitants, who lived and worked in 287 main and 165 auxiliary buildings.