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town in the See also:kingdom of See also:Saxony, on the See also:left hank of the. Mukle, 19 M. S.E. of See also:Leipzig on the railway See also:Dobeln-See also:Dresden. Pop. (1905) 11,182. 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, 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. There are also a See also:modern school, a teachers' See also:seminary, a commercial school and a school of See also:brewing. 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. Gardening and See also:agriculture generally are also important branches of See also:industry. 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. Grimma is of Sorbian origin, and is first mentioned in 1203. It passed then into See also:possession of Saxony and has remained since See also:part of that See also:country.

See Lorenz, See also:

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

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