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The ‚Rheinische Hof‘ was located a little outside the city. It offered travelers who could not arrive in the city in time before the city gates closed accommodation and food. From 1718 to 1854, the Thurn and Taxis post office was housed in the inn.

Like many other cities, St. Goar was also affected by major disasters over the centuries. The old town hall, first mentioned in 1332, is an example of this. The building with a bell tower spanned the Unterstraße, one of the two main streets.

The simple building with the sandstone gate arch is the oldest surviving house in St. Goar; it was built in 1137. After the St. Goar monastery was converted into a choir monastery, apartments had to be created. The Dechanei was used as the residence of the

The Borngasse has been shaped by the wells over generations, to which it owes its name [„Born” is Middle High German for “source”]. Upwards in the Oberstraße there is a prolific well, the Hambrunnen. This well, which is significant for the water supply of the city, can already be found in the

In Casinogasse, the so-called St. Goarer ‚Casino Society‘ had its winter residence. The architecture of the house is remarkable, as the Casinogasse is built over here. The Casino Society, founded in 1815, included manufacturers, merchants, officers, high-ranking officials, and priests. The number of members fluctuated between

Where the St. Goar train station stands today was once the Palatium, the castle of the Counts of Arnstein. As early as the 10th century, the counts appointed by the Pümer monks as voivodes made the castle their residence and used it to secure their power.

Already the Celts and Romans used to cross the Rhine using small boats made of tree trunks and planks attached to them when necessary. In the Middle Ages, the guardians of St. Goar, the counts of Katzenelnbogen, had the right to ferry people across. In 1532, for the first time a ferry was built that was used to transport people across the Rhine.

Some of the houses in Grebelgasse once had Jewish owners, which is why the street was called Judengasse until 1935. As was the case everywhere on the Middle Rhine, even into the modern era, the Jewish citizens were assigned their own residential areas. Over time, the fixed residential structures began to dissolve.

The Heerstraße originally bore the name Untere Straße. Despite its high-water-risk status, it was significant because it directly connected the two large city gates. During the French rule on the Rhine (1794–1813/14), work had begun to,

Das Haus, an dem sich der Brunnen befindet, war ursprünglich das Gasthaus ‚Zum Grünen Wald‘, hieraus leitet sich der Name für den Grünewaldsbrunnen ab. Er wird von weiteren Brunnen in der Borngasse gespeist. Seine erste urkundliche Erwähnung ist bereits aus