Golden Mile (Rhineland-Palatinate)

The Golden Mile south of Remagen in 2012. Above left: Dattenberg. Above centre: Leubsdorf. Right: Sinzig. Foreground: the Ahr

The Golden Mile (German: Goldene Meile) is the fertile plain lying between Bad Breisig and Remagen to the left of the River Rhine in Germany. The epithet "golden" refers to the fertility of the soil in this area.

This section of the Rhine valley achieved notoriety as a result of the Golden Mile prisoner-of-war camp in which, in spring 1945, German soldiers were detained in the open.

The Black Madonna Chapel in Remagen

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