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4 unusual facts about Lorch


Legio II Italica

In 180 II Italica was stationed in Lauriacum, modern Lorch.

Lorch, Hesse

There is a connection to the Autobahn “cross” at Mainz (A 61/A 60, Cologne/Koblenz/Ludwigshafen) across the Wiesbaden-Schierstein bridge over the Rhine; and by way of the Rhine ferries at Lorch and Kaub to the on-ramps at Laudert and Rheinböllen (about 15 km).

Wäschenbeuren

Wäschenbeuren is located on the primary road 297, from Göppingen to Lorch.

In the North, the municipality borders the towns of Lorch and Schwäbisch Gmünd, district of Ostalbkreis, at thr East and in the South, it borders the district city of Göppingen and in the West, it borders Birenbach and Börtlingen.


Edgar Lorch

Edgar Raymond Lorch (July 22, 1907 – March 5, 1990) was a Swiss American mathematician.

Free State Bottleneck

The resulting gap on the eastern side of the Rhine contained the Wisper valley, the towns of Lorch and Kaub, and villages of Lorchhausen, Sauerthal, Ransel, Wollmerschied, Welterod, Zorn, Strüth and Egenrod.

The history of the Bottleneck is now a tourist attraction in the area, particularly in the former Free State's major towns of Kaub and Lorch.

Jeremias Friedrich Reuß

In 1757 he became a professor (Professor primarius theologiae) at the University of Tübingen and at the same time chancellor of the university, provost of the Collegiate Church of Tübingen, and titular abbot of the Lorch monastery.

Lee Lorch

In his academic work, Lorch focused on several subfields of classical analysis such as summability theory, Fourier analysis, ordinary differential equations and real analysis.


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