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 structure. The building of the present-day finance office was erected in its place in 1790 as an evangelical school. The cellars of the building, which is divided into 15 similar segments, are very different and some of them still date back to the medieval houses.
The Hotel ‚Zur Post‘ is today the oldest existing inn in the city. It once bore the name ‚Cold cellar‘ and was a known meeting place – not only for the men of ‚Kerwelhausen‘, the neighborhood around the church, but also for the numerous visitors to the city