LÜTZEN, a small town of Prussian Saxony, between Leipzig and Weissenfels, 11 miles W.S.W. of the former. It is celebrated as the scene of two important battles—one on the 6th November, 1632, between the Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus, and the Austrians under Wallenstein, when the former, though victorious, lost their gallant general; the other on the 2d May 1813, when the Prussian and Russian allied army was defeated by the French under Bonaparte. Pop. 1961.