EUTIN, a town of Germany, belonging to Oldenburg, situated on the Lake Eutin, 20 m. N. from Lubeck by the railway to Kiel. Pop. 8,81o. Eutin was, according to tradition, founded by Count Adolf II. of Holstein. In 1155 it fell to the bishopric of Lubeck, and after many changes during the middle ages and the Thirty Years' War, it came into the possession of the house of Holstein, and hence to Prussia in 1866. It possesses a palace with a fine park. In the neighbourhood is a beautiful tract of country, rich in beech forests and fjords, known as "the Holstein Switzerland," largely frequented in summer by the Hamburgers. Furniture and paper are manufactured here.