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Remagen

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

Remagen
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Apollinaris 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
  2. 02
    Landskrone

    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
  3. 03
    Burg 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    St. Peter and Paul. A Catholic
  2. 02
    Apollinariskirche
  3. 03
    Friedenskirche

    A Lutheran church.

  4. 04
    Rolandsbogen

    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.

  5. 05
    Römisches Museum Remagen
  6. 06
    Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck

From Wikivoyage: Remagen, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

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) → Remagen
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Düsseldorf → Remagen
    78 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · €9–13
  • Dortmund → Remagen
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · €14–19
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Remagen, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    337 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    508 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    602 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    708 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    741 km

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Around it

Next door to Remagen

Remagen is 20 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.