Tips for your visit

Service for groups and tour operators

The UNESCO World Heritage Site Lorsch Abbey is a wonderful place to experience as a group. In numerous bookable guided tours for groups the team of the UNESCO World Heritage Site on the monastery grounds and in the Lauresham open-air laboratory will introduce you to various historical topics and aspects of architectural history in an interesting way.
You can combine your visit to the UNESCO World Heritage Site with culinary delights and many tourist and cultural attractions in Lorsch and the region. Here are a few tips and recommendations.

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Your day in Lorsch – just as you wish!

Are you looking for an exciting destination? That combines proven themes with unusual aspects? – Put together your own individual day based on our group tour offer at a fixed price! You can find our current offer for groups here .

Accommodation and gastronomy

Here you will always find an up-to-date overview of all available vacation apartments as well as accommodation and catering establishments in Lorsch. There is also a communal parking space for motorhomes.
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Shopping

On a stroll through Lorsch town center, you can find regional specialties, local products and original souvenirs. Take your time to explore the city. For example, the finest herb truffles according to the Lorsch pharmacopoeia in the “Sweet Workshop” (
www.suesse-werkstatt.de ).

Theater Sapperlot

Our cultural cabaret oasis is called Theater Sapperlot. Whoever wins the German Cabaret Award tomorrow will be playing here today – and therefore even when he/she can only be admired in the great temples of music in the republic. The artistic flair of the theater director is just as unerring as the exuberant, lively design of the entire property – don’t leave without having been here! Or take a look right here behind the scenes

Your visit to Lorsch could look like this:

The following program suggestions are not bookable programs, but exemplary possibilities for your stay in Lorsch. We would be happy to advise you individually:
KULTour@lorsch.de

1-day program for groups

10.00 a.m.	Guided tour in the MUZ, on the monastery hill and through the knowledge repository, the Zehntscheune show depot.
1.00 p.m.	Draw strength! Lunch in a restaurant located directly next to Lorsch Monastery.
2.30 p.m.	Time for your own discoveries. Whether you choose to explore the herb garden, the peony garden or the charming town center of Lorsch with its lively little stores – the choice is yours!
3.30 p.m.	Guided visit to Lauresham. How did the serfs live in Charlemagne’s time? You can enter the individual houses and gain detailed knowledge about the concept and operation of a village where people not only work, but also do research.
17.00 hrs	Drive home? Want another cup of coffee? Or add a second day?

2-day program for groups

Day 1

10.00 a.m.	Guided tour in the MUZ, on the monastery hill and through the knowledge repository, the Zehntscheune show depot.
1.00 p.m.	Draw strength! Lunch in one of the restaurants in the immediate vicinity of the World Heritage Site.
2.30 p.m.	They are dedicated to the topic of herbs. Herb garden tour followed by an optional herb workshop. Or the subject of tobacco: guided tour of the tobacco museum, through the town and to the tobacco educational field; optionally followed by a workshop.
17.00 hrs	A cup of coffee? And/or a little stroll through the city? We have beautiful souvenirs of your visit with us!
20.00 hrs	Wine tasting in a Bergstrasse wine cellar. Overnight stay in Lorsch

Day 2

10.00 a.m.	Guided visit to Lauresham. How did the serfs live in Charlemagne’s time? You can enter the individual houses and gain detailed knowledge about the concept and operation of a village where people not only work, but also do research.
12.30 p.m.	You drive to Heppenheim. Lunch on the historic market square below Starkenburg Castle (historic protective castle of Lorsch Abbey).
2.30 p.m.	Continue to Einhard’s Basilica near Michelstadt, which is closely linked to Lorsch. Here you can experience another architectural monument from Carolingian times.