EUTIN  , a

town of Germany, capital of the principality of Lubeck, which is an enclave in the Prussian province of Schleswig--Holstein and belongs to the grand-duchy of Oldenburg, picturesquely situated on the Lake Eutin, 20 m . N. from Lubeck by the railway to Kiel . Pop . (19o5) 5204 . It possesses a Roman Catholic and two Protestant churches, a palace with a fine park, and a monument to Weber, the composer, who was 958 born here . Towards the end of the 18th century Eutin acquired some fame as the residence of a group of poets and writers, of whom the best-known were Johann Heinrich Voss, the brothers Stolberg, and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi . 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 . Eutin was, according to tradition, founded by Count Adolf II. of Holstein . In 1155 it fell to the bishopric of Lubeck and was often the residence of the prelates of that see . After some vicissitudes of fortune 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 .