BEUTHEN, a town of Germany, in the extreme south-east of the Prussian province of Upper Silesia, 12om. S.E. of Breslau, on the railway to Cracow. Pop. It is the centre of the mining district (lead and zinc) of Upper Silesia. Arising out of this are its chemical and machine industries. Beu then is an old town, and was formerly the capital of the Bohemian duchy of Beuthen, which in 162o was ultimately granted, as a free lordship of the empire, to Lazarus, Baron Henckel von Donners marck, by the emperor Ferdinand II. In the partition of Upper Silesia between Germany and Poland in 1921 (see SILESIA) Beuthen was retained by Germany.