With 794 inhabitants on 30 June 2012, Zettlitz is the second smallest (by number of inhabitants) municipality in Saxony after Rathen with its 372 inhabitants.
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Romantic artists were inspired by the beauty of wilderness, like the painter Ludwig Richter or the composer Carl Maria von Weber, who set his famous opera Der Freischütz with its Wolfsschlucht ("Wolf's Gorge") scene set near the town of Rathen.