 After the goods had cleared the "Auf der Schlagd" customs office, they were consigned to the town's warehouses, shortly thereafter to be shipped out again overland.The shippers brought mostly goods from the coastal cities bound especially for Thuringia and Bavaria, important destinations there being the trading centres of Leipzig and Nuremberg.In the Thirty Years' War, the town was sacked by Tilly's troops on 25 June 1626.