HERRNHUT, a town of Germany, in the Land of Saxony, 18 m. S.E. of Bautzen, and situated on the Lobau-Zittau railway. Pop. 1,664. It is the principal seat of the Moravian or Bohemian brotherhood, the members of which are called Herrnliuter. A col ony of these people, fleeing from persecution in Moravia, settled at Herrnhut in 1722 on a site presented by Count Zinzendorf. The buildings of the society include a church, a school and houses for the brethren, the sisters and the widowed of both sexes. The town is remarkable for its ordered, regular life and its scrupulous clean liness. Linen and various minor articles are manufactured. Ber thelsdorf, a village about a mile distant, has been the seat of the directorate of the community since about 1789.