Lorsch

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Lorsch
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Lorsch
Lorsch (Germany)
Lorsch
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Hesse
Admin. region Darmstadt
District Bergstraße
Mayor Klaus Jäger
Basic statistics
Area 25.24 km² (9.7 sq mi)
Elevation 93 m  (305 ft)
Population 12,724  (31/12/2004)
 - Density 504 /km² (1,306 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate HP
Postal codes 64647–64653
Area code 06251
Website www.lorsch.de

Coordinates: 49°39′14″N 8°34′3″E / 49.65389, 8.5675

Lorsch is a town in southwest Germany (60 kilometers south of Frankfurt) in the Kreis Bergstraße district of Hesse.

It is the site of the 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. Siegfried has no birthplace and no burying place because he was not a real historical person. In the Nibelungenlied it is told that his father had been a king of Xanten.

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