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LORCH , a See also:town in the See also:kingdom of See also:Wurttemberg, on the Rems, 26 m. E. from See also:Stuttgart by the railway to See also:Nordlingen. Pop. (1905) 3033. It possesses a See also:fine See also:Protestant See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church dating from the 12th See also:century. Its See also:industries include See also:carriage-See also:building and the manufacture of See also:cement and See also:paper. On the See also:Marienberg lying above the town stands the former See also:Benedictine monastery of Lorch, founded about IIo8 by See also:Frederick of See also:Hohenstaufen, and in 1563 converted into an Evangelical See also:college. Here See also:Schiller passed a portion of his school days. The church contains several tombs of the Hohenstaufen See also:family. The See also:Roman limes began at Lorch and Roman remains have been found in the neighbourhood of the town.
See Kirn, Fuhrer durch das Kloster Lorch (Lorch, 1888) ; and Steimle, Kastell Lorch (See also:Heidelberg, 1897).
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