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Lutzen (Saxony-Anhalt)




Germany is located in Central Europe and it shares borders with Denmark in the North, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the West, Austria and Switzerland in the South and Poland and the Czech Republic in the East. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea represent additional National Borders in the North. The official language of Germany is German and Berlin is the capital. The climate is quite pleasant with almost all variety of seasonal flavors as temperate, marine, cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers, occasional warm, tropical foehn wind and high relative humidity.
 
Germany is divided into 16 states which are further subdivided into 439 districts and cities. Germany is one of the largest European economy and the third largest economy in the world in real terms, placed behind the United States and Japan, and fifth behind the United States, China, India and Japan counted by purchasing power parity.
 
Lutzen is a town in the district of Weissenfels, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated approximately 14 kilometers northeast of Weissenfels, and 18 kilometers southwest of Leipzig. It is part of the Lutzen-Wiesengrund, a collective municipality.
 
Saxony-Anhalt is one of the sixteen federal states that make up the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of 20,447 square kilometers, and a population of 2.6 million. Its capital is Magdeburg. The town was the scene of two famous battles namely the Battle of Lutzen in the thirty years war, in which Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden defeated Albrecht von Wallenstein and the Battle of Lutzen in the Napoleonic Wars, in which Napoleon defeated combined Russian and Prussian forces in nearby Grossgorschen.

Tourism in Germany has expanded since the end of World War II, and many tourists visit Germany to experience a sense of European history. The countryside exhibits a pastoral aura, while its cities exhibit both a modern and classical feel.

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