Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yakin Shekaru talatin ya lalata garin, kuma a hankali zai ragu na ɗan lokaci daga wannan lokacin. Bayan mummunar nasarar da aka yi wa Protestant Heilbronn League ta Habsburgs a Nörlingen
a cikin 1634, Duke Eberhard III da kotun sa suka gudu zuwa gudun hijira zuwa Strasbourg, suna barin Duchy zuwa ganima ta hanyar sojojin Habsburg. Habsburgs sun sake samun cikakken mulkin birnin har tsawon shekaru huɗu, kuma a wannan lokacin Stuttgart dole ne ta ɗauki nauyin ɗaukar sojoji masu goyon bayan Habsburg a Swabia. Ferdinand III, Sarkin Romawa, ya shiga garin a shekara ta 1634 kuma, bayan shekaru biyu a shekara ta 1636, ya sake yin ƙoƙari ya sake sa Württemberg ta zama Katolika. A shekara ta gaba, annobar Bubonic ta addabi mutanen kuma ta halaka su. Duke ya dawo a 1638 zuwa wani yanki da aka raba shi zuwa bangarorin Katolika a yankin, kuma ya lalace gaba daya ta hanyar yaƙi. A cikin Duchy kanta, yaƙi, yunwa, annoba da yaƙi sun rage yawan mutanen Duchy na 350,000 a 1618 zuwa 120,000 a 1648 <unk> kusan 57% na yawan mutanen Württemberg. Farfadowa zai yi jinkiri a cikin shekaru da yawa masu zuwa, amma duk da haka ya fara da kantin sayar da littattafai na farko a 1650 da kuma makarantar sakandare a 1686. Wannan ci gaban ya kusan lalacewa gaba ɗaya lokacin da sojojin Faransa a ƙarƙashin Ezéchiel du Mas suka bayyana a waje da ganuwar birni a 1688 a lokacin Yaƙin Shekaru Goma, amma an ceci garin daga wata jaka saboda ƙwarewar diflomasiyya na Magdalena Sibylla, mai mulkin Württemberg a matsayin mai mulki ga ɗanta, Eberhard Ludwig.