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13th century church, sadly closed.

Just a little photo dump from my trip to Lorsch and the Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory.
The first photo shows the Carolingian “Gatehouse” of Lorsch Abbey. It was probably built around the year 900. Why exactly it was built and who commissioned it is still not clear, but it is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Germany and a beautiful example of Carolingian architecture. What makes it particularly fascinating is that its exterior façade has remained largely unchanged since around 900.
The Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory is a reconstruction of a Carolingian manor farm, where experimental history and archaeology are both researched and brought to life. The reconstructions are based on contemporary images, written sources, and archaeological finds from around the year 800, giving an impression of what a small estate belonging to a local lord might have looked like during the Carolingian period. The last picture is a replica of the oldest surviving door in Germany the original from around 800 is in the Dommuseum in Aachen.

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The chimney tax was designed to.tax people on their income. If they could Chimneys they had money. I never realised Churches had the power to tax whole cities to build Churches.