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Monument to Arminius, the Querusque warrior who united the German tribes to defeat the Romans at the Battle of Teutoburg in the early 1st century. Only the statue is more than 24 meters long and is located facing west with the sword aloft in the Teutoburg forest near Detmol in North Rhine-Westphalia in northern Germany. The monument, symbol of German unity since the nineteenth century attracts many visitors.