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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 992 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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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