Remagen, Rhine River town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Remagen is a town on the western Rhine bank in Ahrweiler district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The settlement runs for several kilometers along the river, with a promenade, residential streets, and two stone towers where a bridge once crossed the water.
In 1945, American troops seized a bridge that still stood over the Rhine, creating a crossing deep into German territory. The structure collapsed days later, but the operation had already accelerated the advance eastward.
The settlement name comes from the Roman station Rigomagus, a post on the Rhine road between Bonn and Koblenz. Visitors come today for the art museum perched above the railway tracks in a glass building, or to walk past the remaining towers by the riverbank.
Trains run regularly to Cologne in the north and Koblenz in the south, with platforms right by the riverbank. From the station, stairs and a pedestrian bridge cross the tracks up to the road.
Inside the two towers by the bank, a museum shows artifacts and documents from the bridge fighting in March 1945. The exhibition describes how soldiers and engineers tried to secure or blow up the crossing.
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