DELITZSCH, town, in the Prussian province of Saxony, Germany, on the Lober, an affluent of the Mulde, 12 m. N. of Leipzig at the junction of the railways, Bitterfeld-Leipzig and Halle-Cottbus. Pop. (1925) 14,878. It has an old castle of the 14th century now a female penitentiary. Besides Kuhschwanz, a peculiar kind of beer, it manufactures es tobacco, cigars, chemicals, shoes and hosiery; and coal-mining is carried on in the neighbour hood. Originally a settlement of the Sorbian Wends, and in the 12th century part of the possessions of the bishops of Merseburg, Delitzsch ultimately passed to the Saxe-Merseburg family, and, on their extinction in 1738, was incorporated with Electoral Saxony.