Bridge at Remagen

I saw the war movie, The Bridge at Remagen, when I was a kid and it really stuck in my head although I couldn't remember why. But after I got to Bonn and saw that Remagen was only 20 kilometres up the Rhine river I rode my bike ride there one Sunday to look at the ruins.
I also rented the movie after seeing it in a video store... it was made in 1968 and so was anti-war and made the point that were good and bad people on both sides.. and it was pretty well made... it was filmed near Prague, but was held up when the Russians invaded that year.




The bridge towers are still standing and on the Remagen side they've been converted to a museum. It's basically a community museum and kind of amateurish, but well done with lots of artifacts from the period. It's also dedicated to peace in a non-cheesy sort of way, the people that made it lived through the war, saw a good part of their town destroyed by bombing, and so know first hand what it's about.