HERRNHUT, a town of Saxony, circle of Bautzen, and 18 miles S.E. of the town of that name, on the Löbau and Zittau Railway. It was founded in 1722 by a colony of Moravians, who, having been driven by persecution from their homes, found an asylum here with Count Zinzendorf; and hence the Moravians are on the Continent generally styled Herrnhüter. It is still considered the chief seat of that body. Pop. about 1200.