Lorsch Abbey
| Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch | |
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| Location | Germany |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | iii, iv |
| Reference | 515 |
| UNESCO region | Europe and North America |
| Inscription history | |
| Inscription | 1991 (15th Session) |
| Imperial Abbey of Lorsch | ||||||||||
| Reichsabtei Lorsch | ||||||||||
| Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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| Capital | Lorsch Abbey | |||||||||
| Government | Theocracy | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Founded by Count Cancor | 764 | ||||||||
| • | Codex Aureus produced | 778–820 | ||||||||
| • | Immediacy confirmed | 852 | ||||||||
| • | Gorze Reforms | 10th century | ||||||||
| • | Lorsch codex produced | 1175–95 | ||||||||
| • | Granted to Mainz by Pope Gregory IX and Emp. Frederick II |
1232 | ||||||||
| • | Razed by French troops during Nine Years' War |
1679–97 |
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| Today part of |
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The Abbey of Lorsch (German: Reichsabtei Lorsch; Latin: Laureshamense Monasterium, called also Laurissa and Lauresham) is a former Imperial abbey in Lorsch, Germany, about 10 km east of Worms. It was one of the most renowned monasteries of the Carolingian Empire. Even in its ruined state, its remains are among the most important pre-Romanesque–Carolingian style buildings in Germany. Its chronicle, entered in the Lorscher Codex compiled in the 1170s (now in the state archive at Würzburg) is a fundamental document for early medieval German history. Another famous document from the monastic library is the Codex Aureus of Lorsch. In 1991 the ruined abbey was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The following historical names have been recorded:
The abbey was founded in 764 by the Frankish Count Cancor and his widowed mother Williswinda as a proprietary church (Eigenkirche) and monastery on their estate, Laurissa. It was dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The founders entrusted its government to Cancor's nephew Chrodegang, Archbishop of Metz, who became its first abbot. The pious founders enriched the new abbey by further donations. To make the abbey popular as a shrine and a place of pilgrimage, Chrodegang obtained from Pope Paul I the body of Saint Nazarius, martyred at Rome with three companions under Diocletian.
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