a town of Saxony, circle of Leipzig, on the Döllnitz, an affluent of the Elbe, 31 miles E.S.E. of Leipzig. It is surrounded by ancient fortifications, and contains many fine buildings. The town was in great part destroyed by a conflagration in 1842; and since that time there have been built a handsome new council-house, and an elegant church in the Gothic style, with two open spires, 276 feet in height. Besides another church, Oschatz contains courts of law and an hospital. Cloth, shoes, nets, tiles, and other articles are made. It was here that the treaty of peace was concluded between Frederic the Great and the Empress Maria Theresa which put an end to the Seven Years' War, in 1763. Pop. 5460.