Tobacco Museum

At the point when the Tobacco Museum was opened in 1995 in the Museum Center Lorsch, this was in the learning that the seasons of tobacco development and tobacco preparing additionally reached an end in Lorsch. In 2017, the change of the final tobacco shed to a historical center of tobacco development pursued. After over 300 years of history, this was likewise a tribute to a plant, as it molded the city today definitively.

Lorsch is situated in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan locale, where tobacco was first developed in the present Germany right around 450 years prior, in Hatzenbuhl in southern Palatinate. In 1573 the minister Anselm Anselmann brought tobacco from Lorraine and planted it in his area garden. The beautiful bush was utilized for illumination, yet in addition as a cure. As opposed to the last mentioned, the tobacco had been imported from Europe by the French minister Jean Nicot of America. Thus, the expression "nicotine" for the most significant element of the plant with the natural name "Herba nicotiana".