Bielefeld (ddp-nrw). Two years before the celebration of the jubilee "2000 Years Varus Battle" There seems to be growing evidence that the battle in the Teutoburg Forest has not taken place in Kalkriese in Osnabrück. The Bielefeld reported the "Westfalen-Blatt" (Thursday edition).
early as 1992 had been found in Kalkriese the fender of a scabbard made of bronze, bearing the inscription, LPA, short for "Legio Prima Augusta. This I took but a legion Germanica until 14 to 16 after Christ in the fighting, the newspaper said. In 9 AD, the year of the Varus Battle, was located in Mainz this legion, says in the report.
"It is scandalous that a find of 1992, whose interpretation is established by a foreign expert since 1996, is only now becoming available to the public," said the Hamburg University Professor Siegfried G. Schoppe the "Westfalen-Blatt" . Only now Professor Rainer Wiegand had (University of Osnabrück) "in a new band Roman presence and domination in the Germania of the Augustan age added," that gave him his English colleague Paz Gracia-Bellido in 1996, that it is clearly an abbreviation of a legion that has to do with the Varus Battle nothing.
Moreover occupied discovered Roman shaped ditches and coins found that the legendary Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, in the Cherusci Hermann (Arminius), three Roman legions of Varus defeated country, had not taken place in Kalkriese said Schoppe of the newspaper. The battle took place in the lip, where the Hermann monument stands. It was therefore necessary first anniversary be celebrated there.
The celebrations in 2009, see Kalkriese, instead of the circular lip and the Roman Museum in brackets (Kreis Recklinghausen) and will cost around 13 million €. Patron to Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) are.
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Source: Free 03/08/1997 Press http://www.freiepresse.de/NACHRICHTEN/KULTUR/842291.html
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