Quote Originally Posted by Tartaros View Post
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Really?
the osning is today called "teutoburger wald". did we call him now osning again, because of kalkriese?
i think small communities like bramsche and kalkriese have a massive touristical and financial interest. so i would be carefull with this.

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The name "Teutoburger Wald" was given to the Osning in the 17th c. AD. A common modern reconstruction of the Clades Variana is that the battle lasted 3 or 4 days and occupied a far greater area than the Kalkriese-Niewedder dip where the excavations were made until now. It could perhaps have started near the Osning ridge. I think the whole region was named saltus teutoburgiensis (wood of the forts of the people) by Tacitus. So no need to change the name for the Osning again or move the ugly nationalistic 19th-century "Hermannsdenkmal" (monument for Arminius).

Of course the Kalkriese findings had a great commercial impact to the region. But regional influence onto the scientific szene in Germany is not so huge that this would force all people to support Kalkriese as the place of the battle. It is not proved that Kalkriese has to do with Varus defeat but it is in my opinion far more probable than the other explanations. By now, that can change of course.