HERRNHUT  , a

town of Germany, in the kingdom of Saxony, 18 m . S.E. of Bautzen, and situated on the LSbau-Zittau rail-way . Pop . 120o . It is chiefly known as the principal seat of the Moravian or Bohemian brotherhood, the members of which1,re called Herrnhuter . A colony 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, while it possesses an ethnographical museum and other collections of interest . The town is remarkable for its ordered, regular life and its scrupulous cleanliness . Linen, paper (to varieties of which Herrnhut gives its name), tobacco and various minor articles are manufactured . The Hutberg, at the foot of which the town lies, commands a pleasant view . Berthelsdorf, a village about a mile distant, has been the seat of the directorate of the community since about 1789 .