The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Grimma

GRIMMA, Saxony, town on the left bank of the Mulde; on the Döbeln-Dresden Railroad. 19 miles southeast of Leipzig. The principal buildings are the old castle dating from the 12th, the town hall from the 15th, and the Catholic church from the 13th centuries; the old Fürstenschule, founded in 1550 on the site of the old Augustinian monastery and moved to a new building in 1892; the teachers' seminary; the brewers' school and commercial school. A point of historical interest in the neighborhood is the convent of Nimbschen which once sheltered Luther's wife Katharina von Bora. Important manufactures of leather, gloves, vehicles, paper are carried on, and there are also large iron works, machine shops and dyeworks. Pop. 11,500. Consult Fraustadt, &lsquo;Grimmenser Stammbuch&rsquo; (Grimma 1900).