Whether one now comes to its senses and finally the "VARUSSCHLACHT" signs depend? Or the museum is a big joke, an archaeological Disney park?
case Varus "hatchet buried," prosecutor
ended proceedings to place the historic Battle (Westfalen-Blatt of 6.7.2007) by Ernst-Wilhelm Pape detmold / Osnabrück (WB). The prosecution has finished the Osnabrück legal dispute over the location of the legendary Battle of Varus in 9 AD.
The managing director of nonprofit "Varus battle in Osnabrück Land GmbH - Museum and Park," Joseph Rottmann, have rightly sought public funding and occupied, said prosecutor Sven Bendheuer. In addition, the museum has held back any findings. After intensive investigations, the criminal proceedings had been terminated because of subsidy fraud against Rottmann.
has a view on the anniversary celebrations 2000 Years Varus Battle in 2009 and the new basis for discussion of the District Administrator of lip, Friedel Heuwinkel (CDU), yesterday called for an end to the dispute over the location of the Varus Battle. Heuwinkel: "We should bury the hatchet and no longer argue about whether the historic battle in the Teutoburg Forest Kalkriese or has taken place in lip," recalls in Detmold in 1875, the Hermann monument to the defeat of the Romans.. The Varus Battle is an event of international standing. They helped drive the Romans once and for all from the north of Germania.
In a criminal complaint had varus researcher Gerhard Tiggelkamp (72) from Bad Kreuznach expressed the suspicion that would be withheld in Kalkriese findings clearly show that Hermann the Cherusci (Arminius) and his Germans in the year 9 AD, the Roman state Varus and have not defeated in his legions Kalkriese in Osnabrück.
The institutions and the non-profit sponsors, the foundation of the savings banks in the Osnabrück region and district of Osnabrück, had been misled nor injured, said Bendheuer. The County had stated that it promotes the excavations of a Roman-Germanic battlefield and not the result of the excavations.
The question of whether the Varus battle took place in Kalkriese or not, is not for the financial support has been crucial.
The county had also stressed that there was no evidence in the legal sense, the years after 2000 clearly demonstrated that the Varus battle took place in Kalkriese.
Even the discovery of the oral question sheet which will be issued over the years in the museum, change the legal situation, said the prosecutor. There are many possible explanations for how the plate in the Kalkrieser Area could be reached. Maybe it was - on whatever way - come only after the year 9 AD there. Maybe it was - on whatever way - come into possession of a member of the troops of Varus. Bendheuer. May "This find is therefore not prove that the Kalkrieser battle must be dated after the year, nine AD"
The prosecution had also determined in the museum. According to Bendheuer in Kalkriese many questions would be raised for the location of the Varus Battle. a clear proof that Kalkriese was the slaughter, there was not. This will also charge by the museum represented Sun
Also, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science, emphasized that there is clear evidence for the claim Kalkriese is no ifs and buts lacks the site of the Varus Battle.
Ministry spokesman Bernhard Kurt Neubert, "Kalkriese is a historically interesting place. are therefore encouraged the excavations. "
WB article from 06.07.2007
