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TEUTOBURGER WALD

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 673 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TAV-THE
TEUTOBURGER WALD , a
mountain
  range of Germany, stretching N.W. to S.E., along the borders of the Prussian, provinces of Hanover and Westphalia and through the princi-' pality of Lippe, for a distance of 70 m., with a width of 2 to 6 m. It consists of a well-marked main chain, accompanied in its central
part
  by subsidiary ridges. It slopes up gradually to-wards the E., where it culminates in the Volmerstod (1536 ft.). The greater
part
  of the range is densely wooded. The main chain is pierced by several deep gaps or " doors," through some of which important railways have been carried; e.g., the line connecting Paderborn and Hanover, and that connecting Herford and
Hamm
 . The
chief
 
geological
  formations belong to the Cretaceous
system
 , backed towards the north and
east
  by Jurassic and Triassic formations. The Teutoburger Wald was the scene of a famous battle in which Arminius at the head of the Cherusci destroyed three Roman legions under Quintilius Varus (A.D. 9). Mommsen has located the battle near the source of the Hunte, north of Osnabruck, and outside the range of hills; but most scholars efer some site in the central part of the
mountain
 -chain. In accordance with these latter views the Grotenburg (1.63 ft.), 22 m. S.W. from Detmold, has been crowned with a gigantic
monument
  to Arminius Hermann, erected in 183841 and 187175, at a cost of 13,500. The
work
 , which was designed by E. von Bandel, consists of a gigantic statue of the chieftain, 564 ft. high,
standing
  on an arched
pediment 98 ft. high.
See H. Thorbecke, Rarer durch den Teutoburger Wald (15th ed., Detmold, 1905) ; Wilisch, Der Kampf um das Schlachtfeld im Teutoburger Walde (Neue Jahrbucher fur das klassische Altertum, May 1909).


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