The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Remagen
(r´mä´´gn) (KEY) , town (1994 pop. 15,971), Rhineland-Palatinate, W Germany, on the Rhine River. It is a rail junction from which mineral water is shipped. U.S. troops used the Ludendorff bridge at Remagen when they first crossed (Mar., 1945) the Rhine in World War II.