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TEUTOBURGER WALD

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 673 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TEUTOBURGER WALD , a See also:

mountain range of See also:Germany, stretching N.W. to S.E., along the See also:borders of the Prussian, provinces of See also:Hanover and See also:Westphalia and through the princi-' pality of See also:Lippe, for a distance of 70 m., with a width of 2 to 6 m. It consists of a well-marked See also:main See also:chain, accompanied in its central See also: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 See also:railways have been carried; e.g., the See also:line connecting See also:Paderborn and Hanover, and that connecting See also:Herford and See also:Hamm. The See also:chief See also:geological formations belong to the Cretaceous See also:system, backed towards the See also:north and See also:east by See also:Jurassic and Triassic formations. The Teutoburger Wald was the See also:scene of a famous See also:battle in which See also:Arminius at the See also:head of the See also:Cherusci destroyed three See also:Roman legions under Quintilius Varus (A.D. 9). See also:Mommsen has located the battle near the source of the Hunte, north of See also: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 See also:monument to Arminius See also:Hermann, erected in 1838–41 and 1871–75, at a cost of 13,500. The See also:work, which was designed by E. von Bandel, consists of a gigantic statue of the chieftain, 564 ft. high, See also:standing on an arched See also:pediment 98 ft. high.

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Thorbecke, Rarer durch den Teutoburger Wald (15th ed., Detmold, 1905) ; Wilisch, Der Kampf um das Schlachtfeld See also:im Teutoburger Walde (Neue Jahrbucher See also:fur das klassische Altertum, May 1909).

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