The administrative and military centre for the province planned for Germania east of the Rhine was in today's Haltern am See. It was certainly a place frequented by Varus.\\
Since 1989 excavations have been going on in Kalkriese on the battlefield where Roman legionaries with their auxiliaries and their baggage train were beaten by Germanic tribesmen.\\
The Hermann Monument in Detmold, inaugurated in 1875, is the most imposing testimony to the myth around the Varus Battle and Arminius.\\
