Famous WWII Remagen bridge towers up for sale

Two towers on the eastern end of a World War II era bridge — immortalized by the 1969 US film "The Bridge at Remagen" — are up for sale, German authorities confirmed on Monday.

The Federal Railway Property Fund (BEV) is selling the ruins located on the side of where the bridge formerly stood across the Rhine from Remagen.

"There are already several interested parties," BEV spokesman Jürgen Rothe told news agency dpa. The German newspaper Rhein Zeitung first reported on plans to sell the towers.

The listing did not set a price for the bridge towers, rather stating that they will go to the highest bidder.

Interested buyers have until May 18 to make their offers.

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As cool as it would be to own the unused towers, I can't even imagine the cost of renovating it. Not to mention, despite historical value, if you can't house anything inside, it's a collectors item.

By the way I was outbid.

 

Damn! If I knew about these I would have bid on them instead of placing a bid on Hitler's Obersalzberg outhouse, located on a small hill near the Obersee (I was assured it is guaranteed authentic).

 

Give the vast amount of advertising revenue the Forum(s) bring in rather than Otto sticking it into a Cayman's Island account I think he should make a late bid, of such magnitude that they will reopen the process. I will volunteer to redesign it into a WW2/WW2 Talk Forum headquarters with meeting rooms. lounge-bar, kitchen, and accommodation for the members relabelled as munitions storage/armory to distract the authorities. Otto , of course, paying for such out of reserves. A power launch for the Rhine and appropriate military vehicles for excursions and reconordering are an obvious must.

 

No shit...Must be a one-holer then.

 

Would be nice...But with those new EU privacy regs going into enforcement, it's not worth the fines. Like the one naval forum I haunt, they are shut down until they decide if it is worth the additional costs to stay active.

 

Would be nicer if it was the towers across the way. More parking for any Rogues who venture my way