Until 1979, the Hotel Lilie stood here., The oldest inn on the Middle Rhine. It was already mentioned in 1346 as part of a settlement between Count Johann von Nassau and Count Johann von Katzenelnbogen. For a long time, it was one of the most famous inns on the Middle Rhine. Victor Hugo wrote: „One can spend a whole week quite busy in St. Goar. One must be careful to take a living room out into the Rhine in the very comfortable inn „Zur Lilie“. Here one is between the cat and the mouse...“
The neighboring house was in the middle of the 19th century owned by the St. Goar Landrat Hans Carl Heuberger. There he took Ferdinand Freiligrath During his stay in St. Goar from 1842 to 1844, Freiligrath lived in the hotel Lilie. Together with other poets and his host Heuberger, they met at the hotel where they discussed their revolutionary ideas. Among the other participants in the conversation were Hans Christian Andersen, August Hoffmann von Fallersleben, and Karl Simrock. Freiligrath wrote: „The summer of 1843 has passed by for us more than ever; a livelier time has rarely passed through the rooms of the hotel.“ In St. Goar, Freiligrath also wrote his declaration of faith, one of the landmark works of pre-revolutionary Germany. In it, he declared himself in favor of national unity and a liberal-democratic Germany.