Lorsch (German pronunciation: [lɔʁʃ] ⓘ) is a town in the Bergstraße district in Hessen, Germany, 60 km south of Frankfurt. Lorsch is well known for the Lorsch Abbey, which has been named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Lorsch – the only town in south Hessen to have a UNESCO World Heritage Site within its walls. Lorsch is the gateway to “Germany’s spring garden” the Bergstrasse mountain route. It is a Carolingian town situated in Nibelungenland, on the banks of the small river Weschnitz.

Lorsch Abbey, otherwise the Imperial Abbey of Lorsch (German: Reichsabtei Lorsch; Latin: Laureshamense Monasterium or Laurissa), is a former Imperial abbey in Lorsch, Germany, about 10 km (6.2 mi) east of Worms. It was one of the most important monasteries of …

In 1991, Lorsch Abbey was the first monument in Hesse to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The international community thus recognized the significance of the former imperial abbey of Charlemagne in terms of architectural history, the …

Lorsch, village, Hessen Land (state), central Germany, north of Mannheim. It is best known for the ruins of its medieval abbey, from which excavations in 1932 uncovered fragments of an early pictorial stained-glass window dating from the Carolingian period (8th–9th century).

Just a few decades after its foundation, Lorsch was already one of the richest landowners east of the Rhine, with estates stretching from what is now the Dutch North Sea coast down to what is now Switzerland in a scattered location characteristic of the early Middle Ages.

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lorsch Abbey – halfway between Darmstadt and Worms – is a place of concentrated cultural history. Traces lead back from this site to a chequered past that shaped Benedictines, Cistercians, Premonstratensians, and after …

Lorsch Abbey is one of the most significant buildings from the era of Emperor Charlemagne, Charles the Great. One of its most famous features is its extraordinary Gate Hall, also known as the King’s Hall, which was built around the year 900.

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lorsch Abbey – halfway between Darmstadt and Worms – is a place of concentrated cultural history. Traces lead back from this site to a chequered past that shaped Benedictines, Cistercians, Premonstratensians, and after …

Many people are unaware that the UNESCO World Heritage Site Lorsch Abbey consists of two core zones: the site where the abbey was founded, Altenmünster Abbey on the River Weschnitz (core zone I) and the much larger abbey consecrated ten years later in 774 by Charlemagne himself on an early glacial sand dune, located approx. 800 meters further ...