Lützen
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Lützen is a town in the district of Weißenfels, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated approx. 14 km northeast of Weißenfels, and 18 km southwest of Leipzig. It is part of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") Lützen-Wiesengrund.
The town was the scene of two famous battles:
- The Battle of Lützen (1632) in the Thirty Years' War, in which Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden defeated Albrecht von Wallenstein.
- The Battle of Lützen (1813) in the Napoleonic Wars, in which Napoleon defeated combined Russian and Prussian forces in nearby Großgörschen.
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