LORSCH

village, Hesse Land (state), central Germany, north of Mannheim. It is best known for the ruins of its medieval abbey, from which excavations in 1932 uncovered fragments of an early pictorial stained-glass window, perhaps dating from the Carolingian period (8th9th century). Lorsch is the burial place of Louis the German and Louis the Younger, both 9th-century kings of Saxony, and the village is mentioned in the 13th-century German epic Nibelungenlied as the burial place of Siegfried. Pop. (1993 est.) 11,407.