7 Sights in Remagen, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Remagen, Germany! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Remagen. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
1. Rolandsbogen
Rolandseck Castle in the Remagen district of Rolandswerth was a hilltop castle on the Rhine, the preserved ruins of which are called Rolandsbogen. In 1040 it was first mentioned as Rulcheseck (Ruolechereck). The castle was built in 1122 by Archbishop Frederick I of Cologne together with the Nonnenwerth convent. It is possible that a predecessor building existed from 1040.
2. Schloss Marienfels
Marienfels Castle in Remagen, a town in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate, was built as a villa from 1859 to 1863, mainly in the neo-Gothic style. The castle, with its approximately 800 square meters of living space in 18 rooms, is surrounded by a wooded park of about 100,000 square meters. Marienfels Castle is a listed cultural monument and is designated as a monument zone with its furnishings, outbuildings and park.
3. Arp Museum
The Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck was opened on 28 September 2007 in the Remagen district of Rolandseck. The museum consists of the classicist station building and the new building by the American architect Richard Meier.
4. Friedenskapelle Schwarze Madonna
The Chapel of the Black Madonna is located in Remagen on the banks of the Rhine south of the city centre. According to Hans Peter Kürten, it is still the only chapel in Germany that commemorates a prisoner of war camp. Since 2009, the anniversary of the chapel's inauguration has been used annually by neo-Nazis for marches.
5. St. Peter und Paul
St. Peter and Paul is the Catholic parish church of Remagen. It stands on the relics of a Roman fort and is a Romanesque-Gothic church with a neo-Romanesque extension. A special feature in the vicarage is a Romanesque portal, which originally had no connection with the church.
6. Kapelle der unbefleckten Emfängnis Mariens
The Catholic Chapel of the Immaculate Conception in Rolandswerth, a district of the town of Remagen in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Ahrweiler, is a brick building from 1865. It is located on a steep slope above the railway line on the left bank of the Rhine between Brunnenstraße (entrance) and Marienhöhe Street. Although Rolandswerth is not in North Rhine-Westphalia, the chapel belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Martin and St. Severin with its seat in Bad Godesberg in the Bonn city deanery of the Archdiocese of Cologne.
7. Evangelische Kirche
The Evangelical Church in Oberwinter, a district of the unincorporated city of Remagen in the district of Ahrweiler in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate, is a listed baroque sacred building from the 18th century. It belongs to the Evangelical parish of Oberwinter in the Koblenz church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.
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