city council erected a monument for Walrad in the palace gardens (now a public park). In 1692 a fire destroyed large parts of Usingen. Walrad used this circumstance control to the systematic reconstruction of the upper town of Usingen. He designed the symmetrical streets that characterize the cityscape today were and built representative buildings along the high street. The population of the country around Usingen had been decimated in the Thirty Years' War. Walrad promoted the influx of Huguenots who had to flee from France, and granted them freedom of religion. The Huguenot Church in Usingen is evidence of this migration. Marriage and issue Walrad's first marriage was with Catherine Françoise, Comtesse de Croÿ-Roeulx. This marriage produced three children who survived to adulthood: Wilhelmine Henriette (1679-1718) Married Count Carl Ludwig Friedrich von Salm (No Issues) William Henry (1684-1718) Maria Albertine (1686-1768) Married John George (1702–1725), son of George Philip Count of Ortenburg After the death of his first wife, he married his second wife, Magdalena Elizabeth, Countess of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort. This marriage remained childless. Works Vorgeschlagene Conditiones Für die Vbergebung der Vestung Käyserswerth, Statt, Schlosses und angehörigen Schäntzen sowohl dieß- alß jenseith des Rheins, S.L. Düsseldorf, Beyers, 1702 digitized Notes References Pierre Even: Walrad Fürst zu Nassau-Usingen (1635-1702). Reichspatriot zwischen Türkenkriegen und niederländischer Selbstbehauptung, in: Nassauische Annalen, vol. 114, Wiesbaden, 2003, pp. 179–209. External links Princes of Nassau Counts of Nassau House of Nassau 17th-century German people 1635 births 1702 deaths Field marshals of the Holy Roman Empire Dutch military personnel of the Nine Years' War Dutch army commanders in the War of the Spanish Succession