Remagen
Remagen is a town in Germany in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and district of Ahrweiler.

Remagen is a town in Germany in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and district of Ahrweiler. It is about a one-hour drive from Cologne, just south of Bonn, the former West German seat of government, on the left (western) bank of the river Rhine. There is a ferry across the Rhine from Remagen every 10–15 minutes in the summer. Remagen has many notable and well-maintained buildings, churches, castles and monuments.
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Worth seeing in and around Remagen
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Apollinaris Church
The Apollinariskirche is a church on the site of a Roman temple on the Apollinarisberg, a hill above the German town of Remagen. That hill was known as the Martinsberg in the 5th and 6th centuries, presumably after a Frankish chapel there dedicated to Saint Martin, patron of the Franks.
700 m · roman-catholic church in Germany · Wikipedia - 02Landskrone
The Landskrone in the borough of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate is a hill, 271.7 m above sea level, in the Middle Rhine area. It used to be called the Gimmiger Berg and Gymmicher Kupp, but is now named after the ruins of the imperial castle of Landskron which are found on its heights.
5.1 km · hill in the borough of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate · Wikipedia - 03Burg Linz
The Castle of Linz is a castle in Linz am Rhein, Germany, built between 1364 and 1368 by Heinrich von Virneburg, who was the archbishop of Cologne at the time. The main function of the castle was to collect river tolls.
3.7 km · castle in Linz am Rhein, Germany · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01St. Peter and Paul. A Catholic
- 02Apollinariskirche
- 03Friedenskirche
A Lutheran church.
- 04Rolandsbogen
The former castle Rolandseck was a hilltop castle on the Rhine and, together with the Wolkenburg and the Drachenfels, secured the southern border of the possessions of the Archbishopric of Cologne.
- 05Römisches Museum Remagen
- 06Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
From Wikivoyage: Remagen, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Remagen
- Airports
- Cologne Bonn (CGN), 33 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 70 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 85 km
- Stations
- Remagen station, 200 m · Unkel station, 2.8 km
- Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → RemagenTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Düsseldorf → Remagen78 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · €9–13
- Dortmund → Remagen105 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · €14–19
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Remagen
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Remagen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSome local RB services stop here, but getting there requires a ride on a ferry.
- Get inRemagen - Erpel Ferry (Rheinfähre Nixe), Corner of Fährgasse / Rheinpromenade.
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Next door to Remagen
Remagen is 20 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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