GRIMMA
, a See also:town in the See also:kingdom of See also:Saxony, on the See also:left hank of the
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Mukle, 19 M
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S.E. of See also:Leipzig on the railway See also:Dobeln-See also:Dresden
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Pop
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(1905) 11,182
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It has a See also:Roman See also:Catholic and three Evangelical churches, and among other See also:principal buildings are the Schloss built in the 12th See also:century, and See also:long a See also:residence of the margraves of See also:Meissen and the See also:electors of Saxony; the town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, dating from 1442, and the famous school Furstenschule (Illustre Moldanum) , erected by the elector See also:Maurice on the site of the former Augustinian monastery in 1550, having See also:provision for 104 See also:free scholars and a library numbering ro,000 volumes
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There are also a See also:modern school, a teachers' See also:seminary, a commercial school and a school of See also:brewing
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Among the See also:industries of the town are ironfounding, See also:machine See also:building and dyeworks, while See also:paper and gloves are manufactured there
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Gardening and See also:agriculture generally are also important branches of See also:industry
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In the immediate neighbourhood are the ruins of the Cistercian
nunnery from which See also:Catherine von See also:Bora fled in 1523, and; the See also:village of Doben, with an old See also:castle
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Grimma is of Sorbian origin, and is first mentioned in 1203
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It passed then into See also:possession of Saxony and has remained since See also:part of that See also:country
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See Lorenz, See also:Die Stadt Grimma, historisch beschrieben (Leipzig, 1871) ; Rossler, Geschichte der koniglich sdchsischen Fiirsten- and Landesschule Grinima (Leipzig, 1891); L
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See also:Schmidt, Urkundenbuch der Stadt Grimma (Leipzig, 1895) ; and See also:Fraustadt, Grimmenser Stamm-See also:bath (Grimma, 1900)
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