on the 07.03.2015 is the 70iest anniversary of the first River Rhine Crossing via the legendary Remagen Bridge (aka Ludendorff Bridge). Actually are no events linked to this important date available. So I contacted the Remagen Peace Museum, located in the towers of the remaining bridge on the western river banks to get further details.
My personal plan is to drive up the River Rhine valley on that Saturday from Wiesbaden, heading north, on that day with my Dodge on the eastern River Rhine banks. Maybe some other MV owners would like to join me. The idea is an relaxed drive along the WW2 bridgeheads between Mainz (Gen. Hodges Bridge) and Remagen (north of Koblenz).
My idea is to lay down some flowers at the Remagen Bridge memorial at the end of the day, that became the starting point of the end of "the Reich" and the Nazi dictatorship, opening the gates for the U.S. forces to the German heartland.
Actually I have no idea about where to stay at Remagen, but there is an open space beside the western ramp of the bridge as well as a camping area east of it, only 200 m. away on the river banks. So the idea is to stay over night and to return relaxed back home on Sunday.
I have visited the bridge this year the first time ever and it is hard to explain how it feels to stand on the remainings of this legendary bridge and to know how important this place was for ending this war as well as knowing how fierce the battle about the Ludendorff bridge was 69 years ago.
- So I mixed my pictures with some from March 1945 to bring that moment in history back. I hope you will like that compilation:
http://www.steel-toys.com/R14/
(use "next image" to click to the next picture)
Here is the link to the Museum located in the bridge tower:
http://www.bruecke-remagen.de/index_en.htm
The "Big Picture" documentary about the bridge at Remagen can be found here at youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROqNnkbYumY
Keep 'em Rolling,
Joakim
PS: If interested in joining me for the trip on that date please contact me via PM or E-Mail.
