Winnfeld

Engraving by Romeyn de Hooghe, 1672 (the winter field is marked with the number 1 in the background)

Winnfeld in May 2016

Winnfeld , formerly Wintfeld , is the name of a piece of land near the Falkenburg of the noble lords of the Lippe near Berlebeck near Detmold . It has been believed by authors to be the scene of the Varus Battle since the 16th century .

In the 16th century agriculture was practiced on the plains of the Winnfeld, in the 18th century the dairymen's horses grazed here . Until the early 20th century, the Winnfeld was a hunting ground for the Lippe princes, whose paths were lined with avenues of pine trees.

literature

• Wolfgang Lippek: On the credibility of historical reports on Roman finds from Winnfeld in the Teutoburg Forest. In: Wolfgang Lippek, Wolfgang Schlüter (ed.): The battle - plausibility of the Varus disaster in East Westphalia-Lippe: times around the time of Christ. Bielefeld, 2008, pp. 107-120
• Windfeld, or Windtfeld, a small place in Westphalia. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 57, Leipzig 1748, column 696.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich-Wilhelm Schröder: On the Winnfeld . In: Heimatland Lippe . No. 6, June 2003, ISSN  0017-9787 , p. 139 .

Web links

Commons : Winnfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Das Winnefeld  - poem by Ernst Meyer-Detmold

Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 39.8 "  N , 8 ° 50 ′ 46.1"  E