What is "lorsch"

Lorsch is a town in the Bergstraße district in Hessen, Germany, 60 km south of Frankfurt. Lorsch is well known for the Lorsch Abbey, which has been named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Lorsch may refer to several different things:

• Lorsch, a town in the Bergstraße district in Hesse, Germany
  • Lorsch Abbey, former one of the most renowned monasteries of the Carolingian Empire
  • Lorsch codex, an important historical document created between about 1175 to 1195 in the Monastery of Saint Nazarius in Lorsch, Germany

• Jay Lorsch (born 1932), American organizational theorist
• Robert Lorsch, Los Angeles businessman