Etschberg shared Palatinate-Zweibrücken's history until that state was swept away in the events of the French Revolution. There is no record of how many villagers survived the grimmest times in the Thirty Years' War; it could not have been many. Nevertheless, the 1646 Kusel church register lists a marriage, and each year, children were regularly being born. On the other hand, since no burials are listed until 1668 (twenty years after the war ended), it can be assumed that the villagers back then were young families who had come to Etschberg to repopulate it. As a result of French King Louis XIV's wars of conquest, Etschberg was listed in 1775 as “burnt”. During the 18th century the village recovered.