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	Lorsch Abbey
		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.
	www.kloster-lorsch.de /lingua/englisch.html (2585 words)

	Lorsch Abbey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main church of Sts Peter, Paul, and Nazarius was consecrated by the Archbishop of Mainz in 774, in the presence of Charlemagne.
		In the 10th and 11th centuries, the library and scriptorium of Lorsch made it one of the cultural centres of Germany.
		After forty-six abbots of the Benedictine Order had governed the abbey, Conrad, the last of the abbots, was deposed by Pope Gregory IX in 1226, and through the influence of Frederick II, Lorsch came into the possession of Siegfried III, Archbishop of Mainz, in 1232, ending the great period of Lorsch's cultural and political independence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lorsch_Abbey (826 words)

	Lorsch Abbey
		The abbey and basilica were then named in honour of St. Nazarius, instead of St. Peter as heretofore.
		After forty-six abbots of the Order of St. Benedict had governed the abbey more or less successfully, Conrad, the last of the abbots, was deposed by Pope Gregory IX in 1226, and through the influence of the German Emperor Frederick II, Lorsch came into the possession of Archbishop Siegfried III of Mainz.
		The most dreary period for Lorsch was during the war between France and Germany from 1679 and 1697.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/l/lorsch_abbey.html (611 words)

	Lorsch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lorsch is a small town in southwest Germany (60 kilometers south of Frankfurt) in the Kreis Bergstraße district of Hesse.
		It is the site of a Benedictine Lorsch Abbey, which used to be one of the greatest centers of Carolingian art.
		The abbey is also famous for the Lorsch Codex, which was produced there around the end of the 12th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lorsch (128 words)

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		The surviving catalogues of the abbey's library indicate that at the height of Lorsch's golden age in the tenth and eleventh centuries, the library was the best of its contemporaries.
		The Lorsch Abbey's influence began to wane in the twelfth century as its abbots became more preoccupied with maintaining the cloister's independence from episcopal power and less concerned with the support of artistic and cultural endeavors.
		Lorsch became a Cistercian house and was reduced to the rank of priory.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/7023/Lorsch.html (2329 words)

	IWR - NGG: Lorsch Virtualization
		Below is a small overview of the history of Lorsch Abbey, with special regards to the sources we have for the present project.
		Louis the Younger dies and is layed to rest in Lorsch next to his father in the church he had built for this purpose.
		A copper engraving of Lorsch Abbey is published by Matthäus Merian the Elder.
	www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de /groups/ngg/Lorsch/history.php?L=D (629 words)

	Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch - World Heritage Site - Pictures, info and travel reports
		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).
		The Abbey of Lorsch may be a bit underwhelming, but it's a testimony to the Early Middle Ages when this part of Germany played an important role in the empire of Charlemagne and his successors.
	www.worldheritagesite.org /sites/lorsch.html (1056 words)

	Germany - Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
		The abbey, together with its monumental entrance, the famous 'Torhall', are rare architectural vestiges of the Carolingian era.
		The end of the Benedictine era in 1231 and increasing losses of monastic lands to the bobility heralded the slow demise of the abbey, which was dissolved in 1557 in the course of the Reformation.
		The gatehouse or Kingshall, the remains of a Romanesque Church, the rithe barn, the abbey walls are still standing as a reminder of the former size of the establishment.
	worldheritage.heindorffhus.dk /frame-GermanyLorsch.htm (443 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lorsch Abbey
		Lorsch and the surrounding country passed into the hands of Lutheran and Calvinistic princes.
		Lorsch and its neighbourhood suffered greatly, but, having again come into the possession of Mainz, it returned to the Catholic Faith.
		Lorsch was during the war between France and Germany from 1679 and 1697.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09364a.htm (526 words)

	UNESCO World Heritage Lorsch
		The famous Carolingian gate house in Lorsch, also known as the Königshalle, is one of the most important pre-Romanesque architectural relics in Germany.
		Lorsch housed a very important library and was one of the medieval centres of learning.
		One of the most well-known manuscripts stemming from Lorsch is the so-called Lorscher Arzneibuch (Lorsch pharmacopoeia), which is regarded as marking the beginning of science-based medicine.
	www.unesco-welterbe.de /en/staedte/bild_text/lorsch.html (149 words)

	Catholic Encyclopedia: Lorsch Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The abbey and basilica were then named in honour of St. Nazarius, instead of St. Peter as heretofore.
		After forty-six abbots of the Order of St. Benedict had governed the abbey more or less successfully, Conrad, the last of the abbots, was deposed by Pope Gregory IX in 1226, and through the influence of the German Emperor Frederick II, Lorsch came into the possession of Archbishop Siegfried III of Mainz.
		The most dreary period for Lorsch was during the war between France and Germany from 1679 and 1697.
	mahan.wonkwang.ac.kr /link/med/monastery/encyclopedia/09364a.htm (624 words)

	Lorsch Abbey - UNESCO Heritage
		The Lorsch Abbey near Worm was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1991 due to its great historical and cultural value as one of the first establishments of the Carolingian art.
		From the historical viewpoint the Lorsch Abbey is very interesting place of investigation and exploration as it is the site of the ancient legends about Nibelungs, Emperor Charlemagne’s life and the beginning of the Germany history.
		The Lorsch Gospels date back to the forth century and their wealthy golden and silver incrustations with ivory covers were possible due to the Charlemagne’s special attention to this Abbey – in 774 the Emperor Charlemagne gave it the special royal protection.
	travel-to-germany.net /german_heritage/lorsch_abbey.htm (384 words)

	Codex Aureus of Lorsch - Definition, explanation
		Codex Aureus of Lorsch (also known as the Lorsch Gospels) was written between 778-820 during the period of Charlemagne.
		It was located for the first time in Lorsch Abbey (Germany), where it was mentioned as Evangelium scriptum cum auro pictum habens tabulas eburneas in the catalogue of the Lorsch Abbey library, compiled in 830 under Abbot Adelung.
		The Lorsch Gospels was officially catalogued as Pal.lat.50 in the Biblioteca Vaticano.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/c/co/codex_aureus_of_lorsch.php (227 words)

	Germany Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		Lorsch was the depository for everything that was sanctioned by the church or the state in writing.
		The abbey started to decline in 12th century (Charlemagne family had long since died out), and the abbey was disbanded in the 16th century, during the Reformation.
		The Benedictine Abbey on the island is a typical example of a medieval abbey in Central Europe.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Germany/Things_To_Do-Germany-R-76.html (2555 words)

	IWR - NGG: Lorsch Virtualization
		The political, cultural, religious and scientific connections of the abbey shall be pointed out and an extensive collection of data and interpretations will be built up into an information system.
		Again it has to be emphasised that we are not looking for a single ultimate reconstruction, but that we want to create alternatives, and to assess their plausibility by looking at the data and the interpretations they are based on.
		The time line will be used at the one hand to show different epochs in the abbey history, on the other hand to show which information was available to the researchers, who were and are concerned with Lorsch Abbey.
	www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de /groups/ngg/Lorsch/aims.php?L=E (532 words)

	Opera Directory (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A celebrated ancient Cistercian abbey, situated on the Oder, northwest of Breslau, in the Prussian Province of Silesia.
		A Cistercian Abbey south of St. Polten, Lower Austria, founded in 1202 by Leopold the Glorious, Margrave of Austria, the first monks being supplied from the monastery of Heiligen Kreus near Vienna.
		He entered the Benedictine abbey at Bury when fifteen and may have been educated earlier at the school of the Benedictine monks there and have been afterwards at the Benedictine house of studies at Oxford.
	portal.opera.com /web/?cat=39595 (8879 words)

	The Lorsch Gospels
		It is without doubt the most precious and well kept manuscript of the abbey which during seven centuries seemed to be used only at rare occasions in the cloister.
		To underline its importance and artistic value, the Lorsch Gospels were bound in a magnificent cover reflecting the height of early medieval artistic creation.
		The Lorsch Gospels, a luxurious testimony to medieval art, is now published in a limited facsimile edition of only 333 copies, complete with its ivory covers.
	www.faksimile.ch /werk01_e.html (636 words)

	Lorsch
		Surrounding the marketsquare were several half-timbered guesthouses clearly set up for the throngs of tourists that probably bussed in during the summer.
		Lorsch also had a couple impressive little churches, and numerous religious relics all over the downtown -- such as large stone crucifixes and memorial / dedication stones.
		While the monastery was interesting and the town very nice, the context provided by a knowledgeable source would have made the visit much more educational and helpful.
	www.tompgalvin.com /places/de/hessen/lorsch.htm (598 words)

	Welcome to Lorsch: historic buildings and kingshall
		Lorsch is a nice little town at the Bergstraße, approximately 30 km from Heidelberg, Mannheim and Darmstadt and 50 km from Frankfurt.
		Lorsch is mainly known for it's abbey and the Kingshall.
		It shows glamour and glory of the previous abbey.
	www.lorsch.de /lorsch-english (124 words)

	Paleography Exercises
		This page is from a late 8th century annal of Lorsch Abbey, in a codex which also includes a history of the Franks.
		The abbey of Lorsch, where the document was produced, has its own particular interest.
		Although only a gatehouse, the nave of the church and a tithe barn remain as a result of destruction at the Reformation, it represents a monastic site which was not heavily rebuilt since Carolingian times and has great archaelogical potential for investigation of a complete monastic complex of that early time.
	medievalwriting.50megs.com /exercises/lorsch/lorsch.htm (460 words)

	Heppenheim - LoveToKnow Watches
		It possesses a parish church, occupying the site of one reputed to have been built by Charlemagne about 805, an interesting town hall and several schools.
		On an isolated hill close by stand the extensive ruins of the castle of Starkenburg, built by the abbot, Ulrich von Lorsch, about 1064 and destroyed during the Seven Years' War, and another hill, the Landberg, was a place of assembly in the middle ages.
		Heppenheim, at first the property of the abbey of Lorsch, became a town in 1318.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Heppenheim (148 words)

	Lorsch travel guide - Wikitravel
		Lorsch [1] is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany.
		Lorsch is a rather small town, with little to see aside from the cloister.
		The abbey and cloister is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
	wikitravel.org /en/Lorsch (124 words)

	Culture & Events: UNESCO World Heritage sites in western Germany
		It is a reminder of the former enormity of the once mighty abbey complex.
		The abbey once housed one of the largest libraries of the Middle Ages and was one of leading centres of learning and culture.
		One of the best-known manuscripts is the "Lorsch pharmacopoeia", which is said to mark the beginnings of modern medicine.
	www.germany-tourism.co.uk /EGB/attractions_events/unesco_west_unesco_abbey_lorsch.htm (311 words)

	Stained Glass - ninemsn Encarta
		The earliest surviving fragments, depicting heads of Christ, from Lorsch Abbey in the Rhineland and Wissembourg, Alsace (now France); have been variously dated from the 9th to the 11th century.
		The windows for the royal Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, commissioned by the famed Abbot Suger and made between 1144 and 1151 (now heavily restored), were soon followed by others at Chartres, Bourges, and Le Mans.
		Miraculously surviving the fire of 1194 are four resplendent windows, made between 1160 and 1170, in Chartres Cathedral.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565194/Stained_Glass.html (809 words)

	International Meeting Point - Projekt Armenia
		Eine Partnerschaft zwischen einem armenischen Kloster und der Welterbestätte Kloster Lorsch wird sich in mehreren Schritten entwickeln.
		Geghard is an almost completely preserved 13th century monastery, while in Lorsch all that remains of the once proud abbey is the „Royal Hall“ dating from the Carolingian period and the torso of the Romanesque convent church.
		Geghard und Lorsch sind darüber hinaus wichtige Orte des liturgischen Gedächtnisses: In Lorsch befanden sich die Gräber der ostfränkischen Karolinger, in Geghard die der Proshyan-Dynastie.
	www.kloster-lorsch.de /lingua/projekt.html (4662 words)

	Lorsch Germany - The Lorsch Abbey
		The Lorsch Abbey is a must for people who are interested in the Middle Ages, It's Religion and so forth.....
		The Lorsch Abbey was built in the 12th Century.
		Currently, the Lorsch abbey is being used as a Museum.
	www.globosapiens.net /travel-information/Lorsch-1138.html (227 words)

	Deutsches Weininstitut 2005
		Their elegance comes forth after a number of years in bottle (in contrast to the wines from the adjacent site, Kirchberg, which open up much sooner and are very pleasant/more accessible in their youth).
		Just to the west of the Bergstrasse (midway between Bensheim and Heppenheim) are the remains of Lorsch Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery that was elevated to imperial status by Charlemagne.
		The abbey evolved into a powerful cultural and political center in the Middle Ages, and owned vast tracts of land between the North Sea and the Alps, including many vineyards.
	www.deutscheweine.de /internet-en/nav/704/7043c412-768a-401b-e592-6461d7937aae&uTem=70b501f4-e009-8401-be59-26461d7937aa&_ic_uCon=f5b20a5a-9fec-6c01-7288-b5952196117f.htm (626 words)

	ARTH 242 Lecture 15
		Abbey Church, exterior view of the west facade, 1140-1144, France, Saint-Denis.
		Abbey Church, plan of crypt in 1939, periods of contruction and excavations c.1938-1939, France, Saint-Denis.
		Lorsch Abbey, Organ Capitals from Fulda at Marburg Museum, c.770 - c.800, German, Lorsch.
	www.arth.upenn.edu /fall02/242/242lecture15.html (197 words)

	:: UNESCO & KOREA ::
		The Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts of Hessen State, where Lorsch Abbey is located, proposed this partnership in January 2004 through the Korean National Commission for UNESCO.
		Lorsch Abbey is working towards the formation of a global network with the participation of similar monasteries around the world.
		The following representatives attended the signing of the agreement of this partnership: Hermann Schefers, managing director of Lorsch Abbey, Park Kyoung-youl, head priest of Haeinsa Temple, Joachim-Felix Leonhard, deputy minister of the Hessen State Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts, Kim Yersu, secretary-general of the KNCU, and others.
	www.unesco.or.kr /unescokorea/event_4.html (272 words)

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