2 Sentences With "go to rack and ruin"

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Among other things, he characterized the village as being very run down. Before he had become Schultheiß, most of the houses had been allowed to fall into disrepair. The smithy owner, Hans Storrer, was singled out for not only letting his own house go to rack and ruin, but also for tearing empty buildings apart to sell beams and other building materials to outsiders. Eichhorn's report ended with a request that the authorities grant him building wood so that he might build the village back up.
This gave the basis for attempts to present the last one as the patron saint of the rotunda. When Princess Lucretia, the last of the Piast dynasty, died in 1653 the rotunda ceased to be the castle chapel. Since that time the rotunda has been the property of the Chamber of Cieszyn established by the Habsburgs. The new managers did not pay much attention to the church, however the sources state that the Rotunda did not go to rack and ruin. In 1722 and 1755 it was written that the Rotunda “is old, domed and twice a year, on Saint Wenceslas and Saint Nicolas days services are held there”. In the early years of the dominance of the Habsburgs the Rotunda was used as a repository for tools required for performance of the so-called orchards God’s Judgements and sometimes also as an arms depot.