LORCH  , a

town in the kingdom of Wurttemberg, on the Rems, 26 m . E. from Stuttgart by the railway to Nordlingen . Pop . (1905) 3033 . It possesses a fine Protestant church dating from the 12th century . Its industries include carriage-building and the manufacture of cement and paper . On the Marienberg lying above the town stands the former Benedictine monastery of Lorch, founded about IIo8 by Frederick of Hohenstaufen, and in 1563 converted into an Evangelical college . Here Schiller passed a portion of his school days . The church contains several tombs of the Hohenstaufen family . The Roman limes began at Lorch and Roman remains have been found in the neighbourhood of the town . See Kirn, Fuhrer durch das Kloster Lorch (Lorch, 1888) ; and Steimle, Kastell Lorch (Heidelberg, 1897) .