Lützen is a town in the district of Weißenfels in the Saxony-Anhalt region of Germany. It has a population of roughly 6000 and is the seat of Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Lützen which include the municipalities of: With an area of 20,447 km² and a population of 2. ...
Großgörschen
Lützena
Poserna
Rippach
Röcken
Sössen
Starsiedel
The town was the scene of two famous battles. In the first, Gustavus II defeated Albrecht von Wallenstein in 1632 during the Thirty Years' War, and in the other, in 1813 Napoleon defeated combined Russian and Prussian forces in nearby Großgörschen, in the Napoleonic Wars. Gustav II Adolph Gustav II Adolph (December 9, 1594 - November 6, 1632) (also known as Gustav Adolph the Great, under the Latin name Gustavus Adolphus or the Swedish form Gustav II Adolf) was a King of Sweden. ... Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein (also Waldstein, Czech: Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna), September 24, 1583 – February 25, 1634) was a Czech soldier and politician who gave his services (an army of 30,000 to 100,000 men) during the Danish Period of the Thirty Years War to Ferdinand II... Battle of Lützen Conflict Thirty Years War Date November 16, 1632 Place Near Lützen, southwest of Leipzig, Germany Result Protestant strategic victory The Battle of Lützen was one of the most decisive battles of the Thirty Years War. ... The victory of Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) The Thirty Years War was a conflict fought between the years 1618 and 1648, principally in the Central European territory of the Holy Roman Empire, but also involving most of the major continental powers. ... This Battle of Lützen happened as Napoleons army was on the way home from its Russian disaster. ... The Napoleonic Wars lasted from 1804 until 1815. ...
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