GRIMMA  , a

town in the kingdom of Saxony, on the left hank of the . Mukle, 19 M . S.E. of Leipzig on the railway Dobeln-Dresden . Pop . (1905) 11,182 . It has a Roman Catholic and three Evangelical churches, and among other principal buildings are the Schloss built in the 12th century, and long a residence of the margraves of Meissen and the electors of Saxony; the town-hall, dating from 1442, and the famous school Furstenschule (Illustre Moldanum) , erected by the elector Maurice on the site of the former Augustinian monastery in 1550, having provision for 104 free scholars and a library numbering ro,000 volumes . There are also a modern school, a teachers' seminary, a commercial school and a school of brewing . Among the industries of the town are ironfounding, machine building and dyeworks, while paper and gloves are manufactured there . Gardening and agriculture generally are also important branches of industry . In the immediate neighbourhood are the ruins of the Cistercian nunnery from which Catherine von Bora fled in 1523, and; the village of Doben, with an old castle . Grimma is of Sorbian origin, and is first mentioned in 1203 . It passed then into possession of Saxony and has remained since part of that country .

See Lorenz,

Die Stadt Grimma, historisch beschrieben (Leipzig, 1871) ; Rossler, Geschichte der koniglich sdchsischen Fiirsten- and Landesschule Grinima (Leipzig, 1891); L . Schmidt, Urkundenbuch der Stadt Grimma (Leipzig, 1895) ; and Fraustadt, Grimmenser Stamm-bath (Grimma, 1900) .