Visiting The Bridge at Remagen
On our trip to the Middle Rhine area, we stopped by the remains of the famous Remagen Bridge, or the Ludendorff Bridge, as it was called. The bridge is gone, but the towers are still there, and on the Western bank, they house the Remagen Friedensmuseum.
Fun fact: the museum was financed in the 1970s, largely by selling stones from the bridge. It was built from stone form the hill on the other side, which is a black lava-like stone, as you can seen in the photo gallery.















There isn’t that much to see, but I liked the explanation about how the bridge came to be built, and the exhibit about the making of the 1969 movie ‘The Bridget at Remagen’, which was for the most part filmed in Chzechoslovakia, right until the invasion of the Russians. This meant the crew had to tail out of the country. This story is also explained in detail in the ‘After The Battle’ magazine, number 16.
As a first stop that day, we also visited the Arp Museum at Rolandseck, which is nearby. This is a very nice art museum. In case your wife or girlfriend is coming along, I can really recommend it 🙂
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