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6 unusual facts about Rheinbach


Gustav Sorge

Gustav Hermann Sorge (April 24, 1911, Rydzyna, Silesia – 1978, Rheinbach, prison), nicknamed "Der eiserne Gustav" (The Iron Gustav) for his brutality, was an SS-Hauptscharführer and a guard at Esterwegen concentration camp in the Emsland region of Germany prior to being assigned to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Joseph Willot

Joseph Willot and his two partners were sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in Rheinbach, Germany.

Klaus Moje

Moje became a journeyman glass cutter and worked in his family's shop until he received a scholarship to study glass art in Rheinbach and then in Hadamar.

Michael Preisinger

Michael Preisinger (born March 26, 1962 in Rheinbach, Germany) is a German journalist, author and TV-host, also writing under the pseudonym Mig van Steinbrink.

Tomburg Castle

The Tomburg is a Castle ruin near Wormersdorf, a village in the municipality of Rheinbach near Bonn.

Voreifel Railway

The station buildings at Bonn-Duisdorf, Kottenforst, Meckenheim (Bz Köln), Rheinbach, Odendorf and Kuchenheim (spelt Cuchenheim until 1936) were built at this time.


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Voreifel Railway

Planning is underway on the development of a continuous double track line on the Bonn–Witterschlick section and the construction of four new stations: Bonn-Endenich Nord (at km 2.2), Bonn-Helmholtzstraße (km 4.4), Alfter-Impekoven (km 7.1, not at site of the former Witterschlick/Impekoven, which was at a peripheral location near federal highway 56, but at the level crossing near Oedekoven) and Rheinbach Römerkanal.


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