REMAGEN

city, Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), western Germany. It lies on the left bank of the Rhine River, southeast of Bonn. It originated as the Roman fortress Ricomagnus and has some Roman remains and a 12th-century gate. In World War II it figured in the Anglo-American advance into Germany in March 1945; the 9th Armoured Division of the U.S. 1st Army found the Remagen railway bridge across the Rhine to Erpel damaged but still usable. A crossing was promptly forced, establishing the first Allied bridgehead across the Rhine. Remagen now has a series of hotels along the Rhine waterfront and exports the well-known Apollinaris mineral water obtained from a local spring. Pop. (1989 est.) 14,375.