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REMAGEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 76 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REMAGEN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:Province, on the See also:left See also:bank of the Rhine, 12 M. above See also:Bonn, by the railway from See also:Cologne to See also:Coblenz, and at the junction of the See also:Ahr valley railway to Adenau. Pop. (Igoo) 3534. The (See also:Roman See also:Catholic) See also:parish See also:church is remarkable for a See also:gate (Romertor) with See also:grotesque sculptures of animals, dating from the 12th See also:century. Archaeologists have variously interpreted its See also:original purpose, whether as church See also:door, See also:city gate or See also:palace gate. The See also:industry of the See also:place is almost wholly concerned with the preparation of See also:wine, in which a large export See also:trade is done. Just below the town, on a height overlooking the Rhine, stands the See also:Apollinaris church, built 1839–53 on the site of a See also:chapel formerly dedicated to St See also:Martin, and containing the See also:relics of St Apollinaris. It is a frequent place of See also:pilgrimage from all parts of the See also:lower Rhine. According to See also:legend, the See also:ship conveying the relics of the three See also:kings and of See also:Bishop Apollinaris from See also:Milan to Cologne in 1164 could not be got to move away from the spot until the bones of St Apollinaris had been interred in St Martin's chapel. Remagen (the Rigomagus of the See also:Romans) originally belonged to the duchy of See also:Julich. Many Roman antiquities have been discovered here. In 1857 a votive See also:altar dedicated to See also:Jupiter, See also:Mars and See also:Mercury was unearthed, and is now in the Provincial Museum at Bonn.

See See also:

Kinkel, Der Fiihrer durch das Ahrthal nebst Beschreibung der Stadt Remagen (2nd ed., Bonn, 1854).

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