Lorch No. 1

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Klosterkirche Lorch von außen"

Image Source: digital photograph 8 January 2008 by Xocolatl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lorchaußen.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "The monastery church of Lorch."

Image Source: digital photograph 22 May 2019 by Holger Uwe Schmitt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:22.5.2019_Besuch_der_Klosterkirche_Lorch._09.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2022]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "The monastery church of Lorch."

Image Source: digital photograph 22 May 2019 by Holger Uwe Schmitt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:22.5.2019_Besuch_der_Klosterkirche_Lorch._04.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24511LOR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Klosterkirche Lorch

Church Location: Klosterstraße 2, 73547 Lorch, Germany -- Tel.: +49 7172 928497

Country Name: Germany

Location: Ostalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg

Directions to Site: Located off local road L1154 [aka Klosterstraße], N of county road 29, 7 km W of Schwäbisch Gmünd, 45-50 km E of Stuttgart

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Church Notes: Benedictine monastery founded 1102;; main altar consecratied 1139; modified 15thC; abandoned after the Reformation; recovered in the 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view

[NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval monastery church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.79875, 9.703167

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 47′ 55.5″ N, 9° 42′ 11.4″ E

UTM: 32U 551638 5405323