GRIMMA, German town in the Land of Saxony, on the left bank of the Mulde, 59 m. S.E. of Leipzig. Pop. (1933) 12,205. Of Sorbian origin, it is first mentioned in 1203. Among the 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 dating from TAA2 and the crhr,nl Furstenschule (Illustre Moldanum), erected by the elector Mau rice on the site of the former Augustinian monastery in 155o. Among the industries of the town are machine building and dye works, while paper and gloves are manufactured there. 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.