Teutoburg Forest

Teutoburg Forest
Teutoburg Forest
Teutoburger Wald
	View over the Teutoburg Forest
	Teutoburg Forest and Weser Uplands
Location	Germany (north-west); Lower Saxony & NRW
Nearest city	Bielefeld; Paderborn (to the south); Osnabrück (to the north-west)
Coordinates	51°54′00″N 8°49′00″E / 51.90000°N 8.81667°E
Area	c. 4,000 km2 (1,500 sq mi) almost all of it included officially in one of two natural parks:; 1,220 km2 (470 sq mi) (TERRA.vita Nature Park); 2,711 km2 (1,047 sq mi) (Teutoburg Forest / Egge Hills Nature Park);

The Teutoburg Forest (/ˈtjuːtəbɜːrɡ/ TEW-tə-burg; German: Teutoburger Wald [ˈtɔʏtoˌbʊʁɡɐ ˈvalt] ^ⓘ) is a range of low, forested hills in the German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. Until the 17th century, the official name of the hill ridge was Osning. It was first renamed the Teutoburg Forest in 1616 in commemoration of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD, which most likely took place at Kalkriese instead.