In the varus battle in the second half of the year 9 AD, three Roman legions, including auxiliary troops and baggage, under Publius Varus Quinctilius suffered a crushing defeat in Germania, a Germanic army under the leadership of Arminius ("Hermann"), a prince of the Cherusci.
The battle in which an eighth of the entire Roman army was destroyed, began by the end of Roman efforts to make the right-bank areas of Germania to the Elbe (Albis Fluvius) a province of the Roman Empire.
As a place of battle, we provide various facilities in Eastern Westphalia, northern Germany and suspected in the Netherlands. Since the late 1980s, archaeological excavations in the region Fund Kalkriese on Wiehengebirge be carried out in the Osnabrück region, which made ​​the place a favorite in the discussion as the site of the Varus Battle. Youngest of contributions raised doubts, however, reinforced the view that a part of the battle took place in Kalkriese. The Hermann Monument in Detmold in the Teutoburg forest reminiscent of the Varus Battle.