Golden Mile (Rhineland-Palatinate)
The fertile plain to the left of the Rhine between Bad Breisig and Remagen is known as the Golden Mile . The term "golden" comes from the fertility of the soil in this area.
In this section of the Rhine Valley, German soldiers were held prisoner in the open air by the US forces in the Remagen and Sinzig prisoner-of-war camps in the spring of 1945.
The Black Madonna Chapel in Remagen
In 1972 the planned construction of a nuclear power plant in the greater Koblenz area became known, and the Golden Mile between Bad Breisig and Sinzig was named as one of the possible locations. For reasons of drinking water protection, however, this plan had to be abandoned later, and the Mülheim-Kärlich nuclear power plant was implemented instead .
literature
- Eckart Probst: The liquidation of the prisoner-of-war camp Goldene Meile 1945 - A contemporary witness remembers , in: District administration Ahrweiler (ed.): Heimatjahrbuch des Kreis Ahrweiler 2004 , Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 2003, p. 207
- Johannes Friedhelm Luxem: Commemoration and remembrance of a contemporary witness of the prisoner-of-war camp between Remagen and Sinzig in 1945 , in: Ahrweiler district administration (ed.): "Heimatjahrbuch des Kreises Ahrweiler 2004", Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 2003, p. 201
- Kurt Kleemann: The prisoner-of-war camps Remagen and Sinzig 1945 , special print from: “Yearbook for West German State History 20”, 1994, pp. 451–483
- Hans-Ulrich Reiffen: The Rhine meadow camp Sinzig-Remagen 1945 , Sinzig 1995
Web links
- Heino Möhring: 'The Golden Mile, an »amphitheater« of natural beauties. The journey of the Englishwoman Ann Radcliffe in the summer of 1792 ', in: Kreisverwaltung Ahrweiler (Hrsg.):' Heimatjahrbuch 1999 ', Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 1998
- Kremer, Bruno P .: 'The Golden Mile in Geological View', in: Ahrweiler District Administration (Ed.): 'Heimatjahrbuch 1994', Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 1993
- Dr. Günther Schell: 'The Middle Rhine Region and the "Golden Mile", in: Ahrweiler District Administration (Hrsg.):' Heimatjahrbuch 1984 ', Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 1983
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de: Industrial area Goldene Meile - The near nuclear power plant , accessed on February 20, 2018.