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» August 23, 2013 |
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| A passenger train passes the towers of the famos bridge of remagen on the right side of the river Rhine.
The Ludendorff Bridge (known frequently by English speaking people during World War II as the Bridge at Remagen) was a railroad bridge across the Rhine River in Germany, connecting the villages of Remagen and Erpel.
The Ludendorff Bridge was notable for its capture on 7–8 March 1945 by the U.S. Army during the Battle of Remagen of World War II. This enabled the U.S. Army to establish a bridgehead on the eastern side of the Rhine. Later on 17 March, ten days after its capture, the bridge suddenly collapsed into the Rhine.
The railway bridge was not deemed important enough after WWII and so was not rebuilt after it collapsed.
Since 1980 the surviving towers on the western bank of the Rhine have housed a museum called "Peace Museum Bridge at Remagen" containing the bridge's history and 'themes of war and peace'. The towers on the eastern bank are used by artists.
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