Home >> Encyclopedia-britannica-volume-7-part-1-damascus-education-in-animals >> Deoghar to Dharmsala >> Detmold

Detmold

Loading


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.

town