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
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The (See also:Roman See also:Catholic) See also:parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church is remarkable for a See also:gate (Romertor) with See also:grotesque sculptures of animals, dating from the 12th See also:century
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Archaeologists have variously interpreted its See also:original purpose, whether as church See also:door, See also:city gate or See also:palace gate
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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
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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 (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin, and containing the See also:relics of St Apollinaris
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It is a frequent place of See also:pilgrimage from all parts of the See also:lower Rhine
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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
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Remagen (the Rigomagus of the See also:Romans) originally belonged to the duchy of See also:Julich
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Many Roman antiquities have been discovered here
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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
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See See also:Kinkel, Der Fiihrer durch das Ahrthal nebst Beschreibung der Stadt Remagen (2nd ed., Bonn, 1854)
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