 Söflingen Abbey was to be used as headquarters for troops again in the 18th century during the War of the Spanish Succession, this time by Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, in 1701 and in 1704 by the Duke of Marlborough.During the Napoleonic Wars, Michel Ney set up his headquarters at the abbey in 1805.After the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 it took some decades before the general recovery made itself felt at Söflingen Abbey.