Lorch (Württemberg)

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '  N , 9 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
County :	Ostalbkreis
Height :	288 m above sea level NHN
Area :	34.28 km 2
Residents:	10,885 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	318 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	73547
Area code :	07172
License plate :	AA, GD
Community key :	08 1 36 042
City structure:	5 districts
City administration address :	Hauptstrasse 19 73547 Lorch
Website :	www.stadt-lorch.de
Mayoress :	Marita Funk
Location of the city of Lorch in the Ostalb district

The city of Lorch is located in the upper Remstal in the Ostalbkreis ( Baden-Württemberg ). It belongs to the East Wuerttemberg region and the edge zone of the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart .

geography

Geographical location

Lorch is located in the Rems valley , a right tributary of the Neckar between Schwäbisch Gmünd in the east and Schorndorf in the west. The Swabian-Franconian Forest lies north of Lorch and the Swabian Alb to the south . Lorch is a member of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park and is located on the Limes hiking trail (HW 6) of the Swabian Alb Association .

Neighboring communities

The Lorch area borders Alfdorf in the north, Schwäbisch Gmünd in the east, Wäschenbeuren and Börtlingen in the south and Plüderhausen in the west .

City structure

The town of Lorch with the formerly independent community of Waldhausen includes 35 other villages, hamlets, farms and houses in addition to Lorch. The town of Lorch within the borders of December 31, 1971 includes the town of Lorch, the hamlets of Bruck, Klotzenhof, Metzelhof, Oberkirneck , Schnellhöfle, Strauben and Unterkirneck , the Hetzenhof, Maierhof im Remstal, Reichenhof, Sägreinhof, Schafhaus, Schwefelhütte, Trudelhöfle and Ziegelhütte and the houses Brucker Sägmühle, Edenhof, Götzenmühle, Hohenlinde, Hollenhof, Lorch Monastery , Muckensee, Seemühle, Wachthaus and Walkersbacher Tal as well as the lost village of Schweizermühle. The former community of Waldhausen includes the village of Waldhausen, the hamlets of Rattenharz , Vogelhof, Weitmars and the houses Elisabethenberg, Erlenhof, Pulzhof, Waldhäuser Mühle, Walkersmühle and Weitmarser Sägmühle, as well as the defunct villages of Marbächle (possibly absorbed into Rattenharz) and Wursthof.

As of 2018, Lorch is divided into the five districts of Kirneck (422 inhabitants), Lorch (6701 inhabitants), Rattenharz (239 inhabitants), Waldhausen (2668 inhabitants) and Weitmars (1023 inhabitants).

Division of space

According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.

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Lorch from the south

history

Roman times

Location Lorchs on the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes

The Roman Empire moved under Emperor Augustus shortly before the Christian era (15 v. Chr.) Its sphere north across the Alps into the rooms of today's Switzerland, southern Germany and Austria. Initially, the upper Danube and the Upper Rhine formed the imperial border. About 100 years later, the Romans appropriated what they called the Dekumatenland and thus the area of ​​Lorch. The two provinces Raetia ( Raetia ) and Germania superior (Upper Germany) were established. The new outer border of the empire was moved to the north and east and marked. Over the decades, this new frontier was increasingly secured. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes came into being. The eastern border of Upper Germany and the northern border of Raetia, which were also the external border of the Roman Empire, met in a bend called the Limes knee between the present-day cities of Lorch and Schwäbisch Gmünd.

The Kastell Lorch was Kaiser Antoninus (reign 138-161 n. Chr.) As a cohort fort arranged for securing the limit. It was the southernmost fort of the Upper German Limes; to the east was the Raetian Limes. The center of the fort was in the courtyard of today's Protestant town church, the sides of the fort were around 150 to 160 meters long. The fort was followed by a civil settlement ( vicus ), which developed for about one kilometer along the Roman road that ran through the Rems Valley . The then strategically important road led from Augsburg ( Augusta Vindelicorum ) via what is now Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt to Mainz ( Mogontiacum ).

Lorch's name in Roman times is not certain; Lauriacum is often assumed due to its medieval name and by analogy with Lauriacum, which is also called Lorch today, in Upper Austria. Between 260 and 268, under the pressure of the Alamanni , the Romans gave up the north-western part of Raetia and the eastern part of Upper Germany and thus also the Limes and the Lorch fort ( Limesfall ); the Romans withdrew to the west behind the Rhine, to the south behind Lake Constance and the High Rhine, and to the east behind the Iller ( Danube-Iller-Rhine-Limes ). Teutons , called Alamanni by the Romans, moved up and settled in the area cleared by the Romans.

middle Ages

Reburial of Frederick I in the monastery (wall painting by Hans Kloss )

The early medieval local history is in the dark; it is unclear whether the place was continuously inhabited. In the middle of the 11th century (around 1060), the Swabian Count Palatine Friedrich II and his wife Adelheid founded an Augustinian canon monastery or collegiate monastery at the parish church in the village. It was the burial place of the ancestors of the Hohenstaufen .

Around 1100 the Hohenstaufen donated the Lorch Monastery , a Benedictine abbey , as their home monastery on the mountain, where, according to unsecured tradition, there was a castle. From now on, the monastery determined the fortunes of the place. Conrad III. had his ancestors buried in the parish church reburied in the monastery. In the 12th century, Lorch was listed in various documents under the names Loricha and Lorche , in Latin as Laureacus and Laureacum monasterium .

The monastery came under the bailiwick of the Counts of Württemberg in the 13th century . The monastery at the parish church was abolished in the second half of the 14th century. The village had market rights in the late Middle Ages . At the central facilities there was a court and a bathing room .

Modern times

View of the village by Andreas Kieser , 1685

Duke Ulrich had the Reformation introduced in Lorch in 1535 . In the wake of the Schmalkaldic War , Catholic forms of worship were initially reintroduced in 1548, but from 1553 Protestant pastors were again appointed. Another result of the Reformation was the introduction of a school, for which a separate building was built around 1560. As a monastery of the Duchy of Württemberg, the Lorch monastery was abolished in the 16th century.

Due to the Thirty Years War , Lorch's population fell to a third. In the following decades, a brisk reconstruction began. In 1660 Lorch was able to regain the right, lost before the war, to hold two annual markets . After the founding of the Kingdom of Württemberg , extensive adjustments were made to the administrative structure of the state. From 1810 to 1819, Lorch was the seat of a senior office , which was then moved back to Welzheim . In 1831 and 1832 Lorch received authorizations for a further two markets.

View of the monastery, around 1895

With the opening of the Bad Cannstatt – Wasseralfingen section of the Remsbahn in 1861, Lorch was connected to the rail network of the Württemberg State Railways and tourism now gained economic importance; Accommodation options were expanded and rebuilt. On June 22nd, 1865, King Karl raised Lorch to the city. In addition to the city administration, a beautification association promoted tourism, and Lorch established itself as a climatic health resort . For 1898, 464 spa guests were expelled, including 64 foreigners.

At the same time, industrial companies were founded. The pasta factory Gebrüder Daiber, founded in 1876, had 125 employees in 1904 and was therefore the most important local employer. She also became the first local electricity user in 1893 . The self-generated electricity was also sent to private houses in the village.

time of the nationalsocialism

In the elections at the beginning of the 1930s, the NSDAP scored well above average in Lorch and Waldhausen; in the 1933 Reichstag election in Lorch, for example, she received 56.5% of the vote, compared to 41.9% in the state of Württemberg and 43.9% in the Reich . In the background was the high number of unemployed, which Lorch had in January 1932 at 340. The closure of the largest employer, the Daiber pasta factory, due to a major fire in 1930 contributed to this. In contrast, among eight founding members of the NSDAP local group from 1932, there was not a single employee; The party was supported in Lorch by medium-sized entrepreneurial families, which provided six of the founding members; The local group leader was the stamp dealer Hermann E. Sieger .

As a result of the synchronization , the municipal council was initially reduced from 16 to 10 members. In the first session, streets and squares were renamed after Hindenburg , Hitler and Wilhelm Murr . By May 1934, the NSDAP had succeeded in ousting all municipal councilors who were not NSDAP members from office.

As far as is known, no Jews lived in Lorch at the beginning of the Nazi regime. The Nazi eugenics ideology , however, fell more disabled people from Lorch and today's districts in the grafeneck victim.

During the administrative reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg , Lorch came to the Schwäbisch Gmünd district in 1938 .

On April 19, 1945 soldiers of the 44th Infantry Division of the US Army marched into Lorch, coming from the north via the Bruck homestead. Mayor Scheufele, together with parts of the local Nazi leadership , was able to prevent a planned defense of the city by the Volkssturm . The Americans were received at the monastery with a white flag. A total of 256 people from today's Lorch districts died in the Second World War ; 64 remained missing.

post war period

In 1945 Lorch became part of the American zone of occupation and thus belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden , which was incorporated into the current state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.

On September 17, 1945, the American occupation forces deposed Mayor Wilhelm Scheufele, who had been in office since 1910, and temporarily installed Theo Lauber, who was replaced on April 2, 1946 by Otto Bareiß, who was elected by the first post-war municipal council.

1945 and 1946 brought a heavy allocation of refugees to Lorch; in the spring of 1946 around 650 people were admitted.

Today's town was formed on January 1, 1972 by the merger of the town of Lorch with the community of Waldhausen .

In 1973 the district reform in Baden-Württemberg took place , in which Lorch was assigned to the newly formed Ostalbkreis.

Religions

Since the Reformation was introduced in 1535, Lorch has been predominantly evangelical . There are three evangelical parishes ( Lorch , Waldhausen , Weitmars ) each with a church and a chapel in Rattenharz. There are two Roman Catholic communities (Lorch and Waldhausen), each with a church. The New Apostolic congregations of Lorch and Waldhausen united in 2008 on the occasion of the new building of a common church.

See also : Church buildings in Lorch , in Waldhausen and in Rattenharz

politics

Municipal council

Local elections 2019

Turnout: 59.7% (2014: 48.7%)

 %

40

30th

20th

10

0

37.0%

33.7%

29.3%

CDU

FW

SPD

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

 % p

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

-2.0  % p

+ 0.1  % p

+1.9  % p

CDU

FW

SPD

The local election on May 26, 2019 led to the following distribution of seats in the local council:

Party / list	Seats	G / V
CDU	9	- 1
SPD	7th	± 0
FWV	9	± 0

P / L = gains or losses compared to the 2014 election

The Ecology and Environment Working Group (AKÖ) is a community-based committee set up by the local council that advises the council on ecological issues and aims to promote public environmental awareness. It met for the first time on June 22, 1990 and held 81 meetings between then and June 2010.

mayor

• 1910–1945: Wilhelm Scheufele
• 1945–1946: Theo Lauber
• 1946–1954: Otto Bareiß
• 1954–1972: Walter Frank
• 1972–1980: Walter Kübler
• 1980–1996: Werner Steinacker
• 1996–2020: Karl Bühler
• Since 2020: Marita Funk

coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: "In the split shield in front in gold the black capital letter L, behind in black a golden lion." The letter L has been attested to in the seal of the patch since the 15th century . The Staufer lion in confused colors is supposed to remind of the fact that the city belongs to the Staufer heartland. The coat of arms was introduced in 1934.

Town twinning

Due to the common Hohenstaufen past, the city of Oria (Apulia) has been a twin town of Lorch since 1972. The flag throwers from Oria, which also occasionally appear at larger events in Lorch, became known. We are on friendly terms with Aflenz in Styria , Austria .

Culture and sights

Buildings

• The main attraction is the Lorch monastery on the monastery mountain. In the chapter house of the monastery, a 100 m² round picture shows the history of the Staufer family. It is a work by the Lorch artist Hans Kloss, completed in 2002 .
• Next to the monastery buildings, a replica of a wooden Roman watchtower reminds of the course of the Upper German-Raetian Limes . The border between the Roman provinces of Upper Germany and Raetia was very close by. The replica of the watchtower is not true to the original, so only stone watchtowers are guaranteed on all Limes sections south of the Main. The entrance was usually on the first floor and was reached via a ladder. The block construction shown here was atypical for Roman wooden structures.
• At today's Elisabethenberg above the district of Waldhausen there was a castle of Staufer servants.
• The modern architecture of the Catholic Church of St. Konrad was consecrated in November 1961. A previous church had existed since 1910, but it had become too small due to the influx of Catholics after the Second World War.
• The school building on Schillerplatz, inaugurated on July 18, 1892, had separate building halves for girls and boys. Today part of it serves as a community center, part as a city library.
• The Schillerhaus is mistakenly considered to be the house in which the poet Friedrich Schiller lived in Lorch as a child from 1764 to 1766.

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  Lorch Monastery

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  Limes watchtower near Lorch

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  Evangelical town church

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  Catholic Church of St. Konrad

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  School from 1892, today a town house, front monument to the Franco-German War

World Heritage

Since July 15, 2005, the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes with the Limes knee in Lorch has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site .

Remstal Garden Show 2019

"Luginsland" wrapped in white during the Remstal Garden Show 2019

From May 10 to October 20, 2019, a green project by the state of Baden-Württemberg took place in the Remstal , in which Lorch also participated. This Remstal garden show 2019 is one of the "small" garden shows that alternate annually with the state garden shows.

In this context, the Remsufer at the inlet of the Götzenbach was designed as a "Remsgarten". Down the river near Waldhausen, the place where the Rems has covered half of its way between the source and its mouth has been marked with a stone monolith and a stone circle as the "Rems center" since 2018 . Lorch took part in the “16 stations”, the garden show's architectural project, with the “Crocheted House”. For this purpose, the “Luginsland” in Lorch Abbey was wrapped in a 130 square meter crocheted white throw made of weatherproof nylon . In addition, Schillerplatz and the churchyard of the Evangelical City Church were redesigned.

Natural monuments

See also : List of natural monuments in Lorch

The Lorcher Baggerseen is an 18.5 hectare nature reserve , designated on November 5, 1981 , which lies between Lorch and Waldhausen and is surrounded by the federal road 29 , the Rems and the mouth of the Walkersbach . It includes softwood floodplains and areas that develop into hardwood flood plains, and is the habitat of highly endangered plants and animals, especially birds.

In addition, there are four landscape conservation areas in Lorch - the Aimersbachtal , the areas around Welzheim and Walkersbacher Tal , the Götzenbachtal and the Haselbachtal , three Schonwälder - Klosterwäldle , Schillergrotte and Steindobel - as well as 19 extensive and 11 individual natural monuments .

The natural monuments include eight Wellingtonia (official name: 9 Wellingtonia ) standing in the forest northwest of the monastery at 48 ° 48 ′ 31.3 ″  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 32.5 ″  E , which are based on a shipment of 50 annual plants per year In 1866 the Wilhelma-Saat was returned to the former Welzheim Forestry Office based in Lorch.

Until 1955 the 1000 year old Barbarossa linden or Hohenstaufen linden stood in front of the monastery .

The Schelmen klinge , located in the forest between Lorch and Alfdorf, is considered to be Lorch's oldest tourist attraction. In 1885 the local beautification association laid out a footpath through this valley surrounded by sandstone cliffs; since probably before 1932 length are there in the summer months to 500 meters water features set that drives the stream running through. The Swabian Alb Association has been looking after the path and water features since 1996 .

societies

• The TSV 1884 Lorch is a multi-division club, including the departments handball , athletics and gymnastics , and claims to have around 1,200 members.
• The Athletik-Sport-Verein 1900 used to operate mainly strength sports (weightlifting, powerlifting) and took part in German championships in ball juggling and weight throwing. Today the Aikido and Karate departments exist .
• The football club Sportfreunde Lorch 1911 plays with the first men's team in the district league and with the second men's team in the district league B (season 2016/2017)
• The Lorch 1924 cycling club is active in artificial cycling .
• The rifle guild Lorch owns a rifle house in the Aimersbachtal and is dedicated to shooting and archery . The shooting range has shooting ranges over 10 m, 25 m, 50 m, 100 m and a 90 m archery meadow. The association has around 135 members (2014).

Regular events

The lion market named after the heraldic animal - annually in May or early June - is Lorch's largest city festival. It has been taking place since 1972. Other street markets take place in the old town on Thanksgiving and Martini .

The Lorcher Fasnetgesellschaft was founded in 1997 and has organized an annual carnival parade since 1998 ; for 2008 53 groups were expected.

Economy and Infrastructure

Lorch station

traffic

Public transportation

The Remsbahn ( Stuttgart - Aalen ) runs along the Remstal, serving the Lorch train station and the Waldhausen stop . Bus routes are operated by Omnibusverkehr Göppingen and other companies. Local public transport train and bus lines can be used at OstalbMobil tariffs and, when traveling to or from stations outside Lorch in the VVS area, at the VVS tariff.

Streets

Lorch is on the four-lane federal road 29 ( Waiblingen - Nördlingen ). The old B 29 running north of the railway line was built in 1938–1940 for what was then Reichsstraße 29. Lorch is the starting point of the federal highway 297 , which leads via Göppingen to Tübingen .

Long-distance cycle routes

The German Limes Cycle Route runs through the city . It follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube .

Established businesses

The Binz company manufactures rescue, funeral and other special vehicles. Its headquarters are in Lorch. It is the outfitter of the mobile hospitals of the Bundeswehr. In the 1950s, Binz also manufactured motor scooters, which today are among the rarities that two-wheeled vintage collectors are looking for. Binz also manufactured ambulances and other medical vehicles in the Waldhausen suburb.

Mahle Filtersysteme, formerly Knecht , a company in the automotive supply industry, has a production facility in Lorch. In 2004, around 300 people were employed in Lorch. The systems are located on the site of the former Daiber pasta factory.

Pfäffle Verpackungen is an industrial company that was founded in Welzheim in 1880 and has been based in Lorch since 1886. It produces folding boxes and other cardboard products. An employment peak was in 1925 with 162 employees; in 2019 there are around 70. Pfäffle has been supplying around 60,000 DNA analysis sets to the Baden-Württemberg police every year since 2002 .

The stamp dealer of the same name, founded in 1922 by Hermann E. Sieger , operates internationally. In her advertising she speaks of the "stamp town of Lorch". In 1971, the then head of the company initiated a deal that became known as the Apollo 15 stamp affair .

media

From 1906 the daily newspaper Lorcher Zeitung appeared in Lorch . From 1933 it was subtitled "National Socialist Daily" and was published until 1935. Today Lorch is in the circulation area of ​​the Rems-Zeitung and the Gmünder Tagespost , both of which are based in Schwäbisch Gmünd.

education

Schäfersfeld school center: grammar school, before that secondary school, sports hall, cafeteria

The centrally located Stauferschule , today a pure elementary school , was inaugurated in 1961. In 1971, the city took over Schäfersfeld, north of the center, from state ownership. She set up a school center there; the Schäfersfeldschule, a composite school consisting of a Realschule and Werkrealschule, and the Friedrich II high school are located there. The Stauferschule and the schools on the Schäfersfeld were designed by the architectural office Behnisch & Partner .

The Waldhausen primary school also exists in Waldhausen.

Personalities

Eduard Mörike , sculpture by Maria Kloss in Hauptstrasse

Honorary citizen

• 2012: Walter Kübler (1924–2012), Mayor of Waldhausen (1954–1971) and Lorch (1972–1980)

Born in Lorch

• Matthias Hafenreffer (1561–1619), Lutheran theologian
• Johann Christian Neu (1668–1720), Professor of History and Philology and Rector at the University of Tübingen
• Johann Eberhard Rösler (1668–1733), philosopher and university professor
• Karl Philipp Conz (1762–1827), poet and writer
• Sixt Jakob von Kapff (1765–1848), theologian, general superintendent in Ludwigsburg
• Oscar Friedrich von Fraas (1824–1897), pastor, natural scientist and geologist
• Johannes von Hieber (1862–1951) from Waldhausen, politician (NLP, DDP), President of Württemberg
• Marga Elser (* 1945), politician (SPD), member of the Bundestag from 1998 to 2005
• Ben Akkaya (* 1983), German-Turkish actor and comedian

Other personalities

• Laurentius Autenrieth (1483–1549), abbot of the monastery from 1525 to 1548
• Jakob Magirus (1562 / 1564–1624), hymn poet, abbot of the monastery from 1602 to 1624
• Christoph Wölfflin (1625–1688), abbot of the monastery from 1671 to 1680
• Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) lived in Lorch from 1764 to 1766, see Schillerhaus
• Eduard Mörike (1804–1875) lived in Lorch from 1867 to 1869
• Hermann E. Sieger (1902–1954), founder of the Lorcher stamp dealership of the same name and during the Nazi era Lorcher NSDAP local group leader
• Lise Gast (1908–1988), writer, founded a pony farm in Lorch after the Second World War, which she addressed in her books
• Hans Kloss (1938–2018), painter and graphic artist, lived and worked in Lorch from 1969
• Mario Capezzuto (* 1952), former member of the state parliament (SPD), has lived in Lorch since 1961
• Jello Krahmer (* 1995), wrestler, has lived in Lorch since 1998

literature

• City of Lorch (Ed.): Lorch. Contributions to the history of the town and monastery. Home book of the city of Lorch, Volume 1 , Lorch 1990.
• City of Lorch (Hrsg.): Lorch in the Remstal. Home book of the city of Lorch, Volume 2 , Lorch 1990.
• Manfred Schramm (editor), history workshop of the VHS Lorch (ed.): City and monastery Lorch under National Socialism. Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2004, ISBN 3-936373-15-9 .

Web links

Commons : Lorch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Lorch (Württemberg)  - travel guide

Wikisource: Lorch in the description of the Oberamt Welzheim from 1845  - sources and full texts

• Internet presence of the city of Lorch (Württemberg)
• Link catalog on the subject of Lorch (Württemberg) at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
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4. ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Lorch.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Hans Ulrich Nuber : On the early history of the city of Lorch , in: Lorch , Volume 1, p. 9 ff.
6. ↑ Simon M. Haag: Key points of the Lorcher story
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Klaus Graf : Lorch Monastery in the Middle Ages , in: Lorch , Volume 1, p. 39 ff.
8. ↑ Hermann Ehmer: Lorch and the Reformation , in: Lorch , Volume 1, p. 229 ff.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Werner Matz: Lorcher Sagen, Sitten und Gebräuche , in: Lorch , Volume 2, p. 11 ff.
10. ↑ Christa Knauß, Peter Wanner: 17th and 18th Century - Life Pictures from Lorch , in: Lorch , Volume 2, p. 23 ff.
11. ↑ ^{a b c} Kurt Seidel: Lorch in the 19th and 20th centuries , in: Lorch , Volume 2, p. 35 ff.
12. ↑ ^{a b c} Rolf Dieterle: Handel, Handwerk, Industrie , in: Lorch , Volume 2, p. 301 ff.
13. ↑ ^{a b} Manfred Schramm: The NSDAP and its divisions in Lorch , in: Schramm, p. 29 ff.
14. ^ ^{A b} Rolf Klöpfer: Economic crisis in the German Reich: the NSDAP promises work and bread , in: Schramm, p. 14 ff.
15. ↑ ^{a b} Rainer Wahl, Manfred Schramm: The municipal councils and the mayor are no longer elected, but appointed by the party , in: Schramm, p. 21 ff.
16. ↑ Gudrun Haspel, Sonja Waible: Rassenwahn - Zwangssterilisierung - Euthanasia - Antisemitismus , in: Schramm, S. 133 ff.
17. ^ Walter Hees: The Americans are coming ... , Remshalden 2006, ISBN 3-927981-84-2 .
18. ^ Günter Michaelsen, Manfred Schramm: End of War , in: Schramm, p. 173 ff.
19. ^ Follow-up remarks, in: Schramm, p. 201.
20. ↑ ^{a b} Walter Kübler: Lorch 1945–1972 , in: Lorch , Volume 2, p. 129 ff.
21. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 455 .
22. ↑ Lorch congregation ( Memento from February 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), New Apostolic Church, accessed August 20, 2009.
23. ↑ Preliminary results of Lorch municipal council elections 2019 - Lorch
24. ↑ Not only active at the green table , Gmünder Tagespost from June 16, 2010.
25. ↑ Klemens Stadler: Deutsche Wappen, Volume 8. The municipal coats of arms of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg , Bremen 1971, Angelsachsen-Verlag, p. 67.
26. ↑ Gangolf Kaiser: The history of the Catholic community in Lorch , in: Lorch , Volume 2, p. 341 ff.
27. ↑ Architecture with 16 stations on remstal.de. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
28. ↑ Luginsland in the Lorch Monastery on hans-kloss.de. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
29. ↑ Lorcher Baggerseen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg , accessed January 7, 2010.  
30. ↑ Protected area directory ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg , accessed January 7, 2010. 
31. ^ Wellingtonien in Baden-Württemberg , accessed October 20, 2016.
32. ↑ A Lorch gem surrounded by rocks: the waterfall was also activated for its 125th anniversary , Rems-Zeitung , May 31, 2010.
33. ^ Trick fountains in the Schelmenklinge , accessed August 5, 2010.
34. ↑ 11th birthday is coming up , Gmünder Tagespost of January 2, 2008, p. 18.
35. ↑ Bernhard Eppmann: Development of the traffic development of the city of Lorch , in: Lorch , Volume 2, p. 191 ff.
36. ↑ IG Metall brochure ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 317 kB). 
37. ^ The Economic Area of ​​East Wuerttemberg, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-88363-100-0 .
38. ↑ Pfäffle Packaging , accessed July 15, 2019.
39. ↑ Police rely on Lorcher sets . In: Gmünder Tagespost . April 3, 2009, p. 29 ( gmuender-tagespost.de ).
40. ↑ Schramm, p. 10 and P. 38.
41. ↑ ^{a b} Schools in Lorch ( Memento from September 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on the city's website.
42. ↑ https://bda-bawue.de/exkursionen/bauten_de.htm (link not available)
43. ^ Lorcher honorary citizenship awarded to Walter Kübler , Rems-Zeitung of March 29, 2012.