Lorsch

Lorsch
Lorsch
Town
	Coat of arms
	Location of Lorsch
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Darmstadt
District	Bergstraße
Government
• Mayor	Klaus Jäger
Area
• Total	25.24 km2 (9.75 sq mi)
Elevation	93 m (305 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	13,989
• Density	550/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	64647–64653
Dialling codes	06251
Vehicle registration	HP
Website	www.lorsch.de

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.