The Hermann Monument celebrates its birthday
This summer marks the birthday of Lippe's most famous monument: the Hermann Monument on the Grotenburg hill above the rooftops of Hiddesen near Detmold. For 150 years, it has commemorated a military victory achieved some 2,000 years ago by a supposedly inferior, backward people (the Cherusci) against a heavily armed occupying army (the Romans). No one knows what monuments the coming 150 years of armed conflict will bring us... The hope that such monuments will simply fall out of fashion because there is no longer any reason for them seems unfounded when you look around the planet.
On the last anniversary, in 2009, when the “Battle of the Teutoburg Forest” was commemorated (which historically took place near Osnabrück), we took some interesting pictures of, about, and inside the monument.
For the 150th anniversary, we have once again made the views available on a small website – many thanks to our trainee Lara, who created the website in CMS Webflow. Click here to visit the website. Click here to visit