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Lorsch is a small town in southwest Germany (60 kilometers south of Frankfurt) in the Kreis Bergstraße district of Hesse. More than 12,000 people live in the town.
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 no real historical person. In the nibelungenlied is told, that his father had been a king of Xanten. (...) more....
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