Partner
In addition to its operators, the UNESCO World Heritage Site Lorsch Monastery has a stable network of partners and sponsors. We would like to thank all those mentioned below for the many forms of support, exchange, research cooperation, additional funding and the many new impulses and further developments that we see and receive time and again thanks to this multifaceted and efficient network.
Operator
State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse
The UNESCO World Heritage Site Lorsch Monastery is operated by the State of Hesse through the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse. It is based in Bad Homburg and celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2021. SG Hessen currently looks after and manages 48 historical ensembles and individual monuments, museums, parks and gardens. The property in Core Zone II of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Lorsch Monastery in the present-day town center of Lorsch is the only UNESCO World Heritage Site to be included.
Core zone I, and thus the grounds of the original Altenmünster monastery foundation, is owned by the town of Lorsch. The area is located around 800 meters east of the inner-city monastery dune and is looked after and managed by the municipality.
To the website of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse
Partner
Board of Trustees UNESCO World Heritage Lorsch Monastery
The association has been supporting the UNESCO World Heritage Site Lorsch Monastery since 1998. The members see their task primarily in communicating the World Heritage Site, its contents and significance to the public. The Board of Trustees has repeatedly provided crucial financial support, particularly for museum education. To the website of the UNESCO World Heritage Lorsch Monastery Board of Trustees
UNESCO World Heritage Site Lorsch Monastery Foundation
UNESCO World Heritage Sites Germany e. V. (Association)
German Commission for UNESCO (Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission)
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Partner monasteries
The UNESCO World Heritage Site Lorsch Monastery has founded an international monastery network. So far, three places of spiritual contemplation, teaching and lifestyle have been brought together in this: Geghart Monastery/Armenia, Müstair Monastery/Switzerland and the Buddhist temple Hainsa/Korea. All three partner monasteries also have UNESCO World Heritage status. The monastery network will next be expanded to include the Islamic scholars’ village of Bantignel/Guinea.
The aim of the network is interreligious and cultural exchange and cooperation. This UNESCO monastery network is the only one of its kind in the world.
Scientific cooperation partners
– Antext: Through numerous scientific collaborations, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lorsch Abbey repeatedly underpins its claim to be a research museum. And makes a virtue out of necessity. In view of the almost 90 percent destruction of the former imperial abbey, research is the only way to find out more and possibly answer the many unresolved questions. This ambitious claim has turned the Lorsch World Heritage Site into a center of medieval research
Miscellaneous
The experimental archaeology projects of the Lauresham open-air laboratory in particular have resulted in many new contacts and partnerships for the World Heritage Site.
As the conservation of old plants and (domestic) animal breeds is a core topic for the work in the open-air laboratory, the team also took part in the European aurochs back-breeding project. Today, Lrosch is one of the most important German locations for the project.
