Cunewalde itself never had the misfortune of being turned into a battlefield, though its inhabitants, too, had to suffer under the consequences of some of history's great struggles. In the years between 1631 and 1633 about half of the population fell victim to an outburst of the Bubonic Plague, and in the Seven Years' War the valley of Cunewalde was used by the Austrian general Daun as a place to collect and form his army in preparation of the Battle of Hochkirch in 1758.