Hermann's Memorial and The Renaming of The Osning
Arminius (a.k.a. Hermann the Cherusker), leader of the Germanic tribes during the battle, became something of a legend for his overwhelming victory over the Romans. During the period of national renaissance in the wake of the Napoleonic wars, German people saw him as an early protagonist of German resistance to foreign rule and a symbol of national unity. A monumental statue of Arminius commemorating the battle, known as the Hermannsdenkmal (the "Hermann monument"), was erected on the Grotenburg hill near Detmold, near the site where the most popular theory of the time placed the battle. Emperor Wilhelm I, the first Kaiser of the unified German Empire, dedicated the monument in 1875. He got his own monumental statue at the north of the Osning, called Porta Westfalica, set up at the hill Wittekindsberge in the mountain range of the Wiehen Hills. In order to create a national landscape the Osning mountains adopted the name "Teutoburg Forest", see also Teutonic. However, the old name survived among the local population.
In this forest the composer Johannes Brahms liked to walk during his stay in Detmold.
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