Lollar

{{short description|Town in Hesse, Germany}}

{{about|a town in Germany|people with the surname|Lollar (surname)|the US Dollar deposit valuation in Lebanese banks|Lollar (Lebanon)}}

{{Infobox German location

|type = Stadt

|image_skyline = Staufenberger Weg in Lollar.jpg

|image_coa = DEU Lollar COA.svg

|coordinates = {{coord|50|38|59|N|08|42|16|E|format=dms|display=it}}

|image_plan = Landkreis Gießen Lollar.png

|state = Hessen

|region = Gießen

|district = Gießen

|elevation = 173

|area = 21.39

|postal_code = 35457

|area_code = 06406

|licence = GI

|Gemeindeschlüssel = 06 5 31 013

|website = [http://www.lollar.de www.lollar.de]

|mayor = Jan-Erik Dort{{cite web|url=https://statistik.hessen.de/sites/statistik.hessen.de/files/2023-04/BVII_m04-2023_Direktwahlen_Tabelle_1a.xlsx|title=Ergebnisse der jeweils letzten Direktwahl von Landrätinnen und Landräte sowie (Ober-)Bürgermeisterinnen und (Ober-)Bürgermeister in Hessen, Stand 13.04.2023|language=de|publisher=Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt|format=XLS}}

|leader_term = 2022–28

|party = independent

}}

Lollar ({{IPA|de|ˈlɔlaʁ|-|De-Lollar.ogg}}) is a town in the district of Gießen, in Hesse, in west-central Germany. It is situated on the river Lahn, 7 km north of Gießen. The biggest production site of Bosch Thermotechnology is located in Lollar.

During World War II, in February 1945, the Germans established a Dulag transit camp for British and Commonwealth prisoners of war in the town, which was liberated by American troops on March 28, 1945.{{cite book|last1=Megargee|first1=Geoffrey P.|last2=Overmans|first2=Rüdiger|last3=Vogt|first3=Wolfgang|year=2022|title=The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV|publisher=Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|page=525|isbn=978-0-253-06089-1}}

The town is known for the chapel from Lollar, one of the oldest churches in Hessen. It was deconstructed in the 1970s and rebuilt in an open-air museum Hessenpark. A water feature, the Keulerbachbrunnen now stands where the church was. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120807110405/http://www.lollar.de/tourismus/tourismushome.htm |title=Sehenswürdigkeiten}} In: Webauftritt der Stadt Lollar