The 9th-century Torhalle (gatehouse) is a unique survival of the Carolingian era. It curiously combines some elements of the Roman triumphal arch (arch-shaped passageways, half-columns) with the vernacular Teutonic heritage (baseless triangles of the blind arcade, polychromatic masonry).
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 the Carolingian Empire. Even in its ruined state, its remains are among the most important pre-Romanesque–Carolingian style buildings in Germany.[1]
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 because of its architectural and historical importance.[1] The significant remains visible today are the 9th-century Torhalle (gatehouse), part of the abbey church, some of the wall around the abbey, and other walls and parts of buildings adapted to modern use.
^ ab"Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 18 Jun 2021.
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Frankfurt. Lorsch is well known for the LorschAbbey, which has been named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Lorsch lies about 5 km west of the Bergstraße...
Littleham, Devon, mentioned in 1422. An example of a proprietary church is LorschAbbey, founded in 764 by the Frankish Count Cancor and his widowed mother Williswinda...
Cancor (died 771) was a Frankish count associated with LorschAbbey. He was son of a noble lady Williswinda. As her only known husband before she was widowed...
Abbot Gundeland's "Altenmünster" of Lorschabbey (765–74), as revealed in the excavations by Frederich Behn. Lorsch was adapted without substantial alteration...
Louis the Pious. Other related family includes Cancor, founder of the LorschAbbey, his sister Landrada and her son Saint Chrodogang, archbishop of Metz...
palace in Frankfurt. The following day he was buried by his son Louis in LorschAbbey. However, according to Wilfried Hartmann, it cannot be determined with...
panels from the front cover (Inv.-Nr. 138–1866) It was first recorded in LorschAbbey (Germany), for which it was presumably written, and where it was mentioned...
The manuscript was written c. 800 in the Carolingian scriptorium of LorschAbbey, where it was rediscovered in 1753. It contains among a variety of grammatical...
about the estates of the imperial abbey of Lorsch have survived dating as far back as the 8th century. The Lorsch Codex compiled in the 12th century...
years 780–790, the creation of LorschAbbey, the expansion of the Princely Abbey of Corvey, and the foundation of the abbeys of Saint-Riquier and Fulda marked...
the German and as his father died in 876, Louis buried him in the abbey of Lorsch, in his own territories, in order to emphasise his primacy to his brothers...
Ermengarde of Hesbaye, wife of Louis the Pious Cancor, founder of the LorschAbbey Heimrich (−795), count in the Lahngau Poppo of Grapfeld (−839/41), ancestor...
Carolingian Renaissance of the late 8th and 9th centuries. The gatehouse of LorschAbbey (c. 800), in present-day Germany thus displays a system of alternating...
Franconia and Gilbert of Lorraine in 939, she spent the hostilities at LorschAbbey. In 941 she effected a reconciliation between her husband and his mother...
list may name Quedlinburg, Maria Laach, Erfurt Cathedral, Eberbach, LorschAbbey with its remnant 'Torhalle' (gate hall), one of the oldest structures...
domain. In 773, this area became one of Charlemagne’s donations to the LorschAbbey, and to protect it, the castle (Starkenburg) was built above it in 1065;...
state power, that was especially appealing to Holy Roman Emperors. At LorschAbbey, the triple-arched Torhalle was built in deliberate imitation of a Roman...
responsible for the preservation of the Carolingian Torhalle (gatehouse) at LorschAbbey, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The grand duchy's "Law on...
is dated to the year 771 in a deed of donation to LorschAbbey. Sulmana is mentioned in the Lorsch Codex. The area became known as Neckarsulm in the 16th...
Odenwald. In 948, an Arbogast von Franckenstein confirmed to the abbot of LorschAbbey in two contracts to "grant defense and shield the carriages travelling...
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