DETMOLD, the capital city of the Land of Lippe, Ger many, is on the east slope of the Teutoburger Wald, 25 m. S. of Minden, on the Herford-Altenbeken line of the Prussian State railways. Pop. The Renaissance château of the princes of Lippe-Detmold (1550) is an imposing building nearly in the centre of the town ; whilst at the entrance to the large park on the south is the New Palace (1708-1718), enlarged in 1850. Detmold possesses a natural history museum, theatre, etc. Furniture, gloves, agricultural implements, etc., are made. About 3 m. to the south-west of the town is the Grotenburg, with Ernst von Bandel's colossal statue of Hermann or Arminius, leader of the Cherusci. Detmold (Thiatmelli) was in 783 the scene of a conflict between the Saxons and the troops of Charlemagne.