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Lorsch is a small town in southwest Germany (60 kilometers south of Frankfurt) in the Kreis Bergstraße district of Hessen. More than 12,000 people live in the town. For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ... Kreis Bergstraße (translated: mountain road) is a Kreis (district) in the south of Hesse, Germany. ... Hesse is also the name of the German writer Hermann Hesse, as well as the German mathematician Otto Hesse. ...


It is the site of a Benedictine Lorsch Abbey, which used to be one of the greatest centers of Carolingian art. Several Carolingian kings of Germany were buried there. The abbey is also famous for the Lorsch Codex, which was produced there around the end of the 12th century. The abbey has been declared a World Heritage Site. The Nibelungenlied identifies Lorsch as the birth place of Siegfried. A Benedictine is a person who follows the Rule of St Benedict. ... The Imperial Abbey of Lorsch (Laureshamense Monasterium, called also Laurissa and Lauresham) in the German state of Hesse about 10mi/6km east of Worms, was one of the most renowned monasteries of the Carolingian empire. ... Lorsch Gospels 778-820. ... First page of the Lorsch Codex The Lorsch Codex (Chronicon Laureshamense, Lorscher Codex, Codex Laureshamensis) is an important historical document created between about 1175 to 1195 A.D. in the Monastery of Saint Nazarius in Lorsch, Germany. ... A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State... The Nibelungenlied is an epic poem in Middle High German. ... Sigurd (Old Norse: Sigurðr, German: Siegfried) was a legendary hero of Norse mythology, as well as the central character in the Völsunga saga. ...


Coordinates: 49°39′N 8°34′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

Wappen des Landkreises Bergstraße
Towns and municipalities in Bergstraße district

Abtsteinach | Bensheim | Biblis | Birkenau | Bürstadt | Einhausen | Fürth | Gorxheimertal | Grasellenbach | Groß-Rohrheim | Heppenheim | Hirschhorn | Lampertheim | Lindenfels | Lorsch | Mörlenbach | Neckarsteinach | Rimbach | Viernheim | Wald-Michelbach | Zwingenberg | Image File history File links Coat of arms of the Bergstrasse district File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Kreis Bergstraße (translated: mountain road) is a Kreis (district) in the south of Hesse, Germany. ... The coat of arms of the municipality Abtsteinach is a municipality in southern Hesse (Germany) in the district Bergstraße. ... Bensheim is a small city in Hesse, Germany, part of the district Bergstraße. ... Biblis is a municipality in south Hessen with 9,250 inhabitants, on the circle mountain route (Bergstraße). The town is located 13 miles north of Mannheim and 31 miles south of Frankfurt. ... Birkenau is a municipality in the Odenwald located in the South of Hessen in Germany. ... Bürstadt is a town in the Kreis Bergstraße, in Hesse, Germany. ... Einhausen is a municipality in southern Hesse (Germany) in the district Bergstraße. ... Fürth is a municipality in the Kreis Bergstraße, in Hesse, Germany. ... Cathedral and old town Cathedral and Starkenburg castle Heppenheim is a city in Hesse, Germany. ... // may refer to: derived from German composite word Hirsch (deer) and Horn (horn), part of a deers antlers. ... Lampertheim is a town and commune of the Bas-Rhin département, France. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Mörlenbach is a municipality in the Kreis Bergstraße, in Hesse, Germany. ... Neckarsteinach is a town in the Kreis Bergstraße, in Hesse, Germany. ... Rimbach Rimbach is a beautiful little vacation village at the foot of the Hoher Bogen (a saddle back mountain in the Northern Bavarian Forest National Park). ... Viernheim is a town in the Kreis Bergstraße, in Hesse, Germany. ... Wald-Michelbach is a municipality in the Kreis Bergstraße, in Hesse, Germany. ... Zwingenberg is the oldest city in the Bergstrasse district of Germany. ...

 
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Lorsch Abbey (2585 words)
Lorsch Abbey is an example of the importance of the medieval monastery for European culture.
Lorsch Abbey for example received it's incomes from the Netherlands as well as from the south of Switzerland, from thousand of wide-spread and hardly connected domains which formed as a whole a complicated organism requiring a very detailed and well structured administration.
At Lorsch the church was a big basilica, consisting of an rectangular apse in the east, three naves and an unknown architectural complex in the west, which may have been a sort of upper gallery reserved for the king.
Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch - World Heritage Site - Pictures, info and travel reports (1091 words)
The former Lorsch Abbey, and notably its gatehouse, is one of the rare remaining buildings from the Carolingian era.
Lorsch however is certainly prepared for an influx of visitors, as there is an enormous parking lot next to the former Abbey (it can hold hundreds of cars and tour buses).
In the 13th century Lorsch was incorporated (1232) in the Electorate of Mainz and lost many of its privileges and first the Cistercians and later the Premonstratensians replaced the Benedictines; after another fire the church was reconstructed.
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