Where it is located today the tax office Once there stood the statue that originated from the cell of Saint Goar. Monastery, probably founded in the 7th century as one of the first monasteries on German soil. It was richly endowed with gifts from the Frankish kings and was accordingly well-off. It was connected to the adjacent cathedral church by a gallery, so that the religious could enter the church directly.
In 1137, the monastery complex and parts of the cathedral church were razed to the ground by the flames; subsequently, reconstruction took place as a chapter house. Unlike the monks, the members, mostly of noble backgrounds, no longer had the duty to preach and provide pastoral care.
With the introduction of the Reformation in St. Goar, the choir master’s monastery was gradually dissolved from 1527 onwards, and the building was subsequently used as a school. In 1789, a fire destroyed the complex. The building of the present-day finance office was built in its place in 1790 as a replacement for the old church. Evangelical school The basements of the building, which is divided into 15 similar segments, are very different and some of them still date back to medieval houses.
