Sankt Goarshausen

The Loreley Sankt Goar city is located in the Rhein- Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland- Palatinate. The city is the administrative center of the municipality Loreley. Until 1969, St. Goar county seat of Loreley circle was ( until 1961 County St. Goar ). Sankt Goar is a nationally recognized tourist and reported as a secondary center in accordance with state planning. The city is since 2002 a UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley.

  • 2.1 Viticulture
  • 2.2 Mining
  • 2.3 Incorporation and change of name
  • 2.4 Population development
  • 3.1 City Council
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 3.3 Town twinning
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 Natural Monuments
  • 4.3 Regular events
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 5.2 Cycling and walking trails
  • 9.1 documents

Geography

Geographical location

St. Goar is located on the right bank of the Rhine River opposite St. Goar and is located about 30 kilometers from Koblenz. Sankt Goar is located at the foot of the Loreley.

Boroughs

Sankt Goar to include the districts of honor Thal, Wellmich and heath.

History

St. Goar is first documented in the year 1222. St.Goarshausen under stood from the late 13th century the county Katzenelenbogen and received in 1324 by King Louis IV the city rights. Above- the city Burg Katz (actually Castle Neu - Katzenelenbogen ) was built around 1371 by Count Wilhelm II of Katzenelenbogen in response to the construction of Burg Maus (then under the name Castle Peterseck ) by the archbishops of Trier. St.Goarshausen coincided with the end of the comital 1479 at the Country county of Hesse. After inheritances it was from 1583 to 1806 part of Hesse -Kassel and secured with St. Goar is the only area on both sides of the Rhine Hessian Landgrave lucrative Rhine duties.

Temporarily occupied by French troops ( "pays reserve" ), the place came after the Congress of Vienna ( 1815) to the Duchy of Nassau and was on April 4, 1816, home of the Duke of Nassau's Office St. Goar.

After the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau by Prussia (1866 ), St. Goar on April 1, 1886 county seat of newly created by dividing the Rheingau district Sankt Goar district.

After the First World War, the city was on the southern edge of the bridgehead Koblenz and was subjected in the 1920s, the Allied occupation of the Rhineland. The city remained until 1945 in the district Wiesbaden the province of Hesse- Nassau.

After the Second World War, the city came with the entire county in the French occupation zone and was released from the Hesse- Nassau administrative structure out. It was part of Rhineland- Palatinate.

Viniculture

One of the earliest mention of vineyards in 1315 is documented in writing Katzenelnbogen Hetzgenstein ( Heider stone). In 1395 then the Loreley was, as a vineyard documented in the records Count Johann IV of Katzenelenbogen, the first Riesling winemaker in the world. The special inaccessibility of the vineyards in the Middle Rhine Valley was already a reason to reward the vineyard workers or particularly easy to prohibit access to certain documents over high heat.

Mining

The mining industry in the districts of honor Thal and Wellmich as a defining element of the cultural landscape of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley dates back to the 18th century. In the pit Good Hope to the middle of the 20th century, lead and zinc ore were mined.

Incorporation and change of name

On June 7, 1969, until then independent municipality Wellmich was incorporated. On 27 September 1993, the name was changed from St. Goar Sankt Goar in Loreleystadt.

Population Development

The development of the population of St. Goar, based on the current urban area; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

City ​​council

The city council in St. Goar consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman city.

Allocation of seats in the City Council:

Coat of arms

" In a split sign up in gold growing a herschauender blue reinforced red lion, down in blue between three golden lilies a golden rafters. "

The red lion refers to the earlier rule of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen, the lilies are included as a symbol for Mary in the arms of the opposite town of St. Goar. The coat of arms was approved in 1906.

Twinning

Since June 1992 there has been a partnership with the Japanese city of Inuyama.

Culture and sights

Structures

Above the town are the ruins of the demolished in 1806 by the troops of Napoleon Bonaparte Burg Katz (formerly Castle Neu - Katzenelenbogen ), above the district Wellmich the Burg Maus (also Deuernburg or Thurnberg called ). Katz Castle is not open to visitors, whereas held a falconry demonstrations regularly Burg Maus. From there one has a good view of the opposing castle ruins Rhine rock. Accessible is Rheinfels Castle of St. Goar from the ferry, the nearest bridge is 30 km away.

The Evangelical Church in St. Goar was built in 1863 by Eduard Zais. It houses an organ from the same year by Christian Friedrich Voigt from Igstadt, which was restored in 2006.

The cath. Church of St. John of Hans and Christoph Rummel dates from the year 1923-25 ​​.

Natural Monuments

In Sankt Goar is the Loreley rock. A visitor center with museum provides information on site about the culture and economy of the region.

Regular events

  • 3rd weekend in September: Rhine in Flames from large fireworks of Katz Castle in Sankt Goar, Rhine castle rock near Sankt Goar and the Rhine Centre.
  • End of June: Valley total. Car-free day on both sides of the Rhine from Koblenz to Rudesheim for cycling.

Economy and infrastructure

Main economic activities are tourism and viticulture. From its former role as fishermen and boatmen city as a trading center on the Rhine, from which today confirms the houses crane, lost St.Goarshausen much. After connected with the administrative reform loss of status as the county seat in Bad Ems ( see History of the Rhein -Lahn -Kreis ) took over the nearby and larger town a lot Nastaetten some infrastructure services from St. Goar. In November 2005, the motor vehicle registration office, which was located in the former district office was moved to Nastaetten. The resolution of the Police Department St. Goar ( and a possible relocation to Nastaetten ) is under discussion.

In the tourism sector, St.Goarshausen emancipated from the sister city of St. Goar, together with the neighboring community Bornich as a carrier of the erected at the Loreley Visitors Centre. Also on the Loreley Plateau in the district Bornich is the built in 1939 Loreley open air stage.

Traffic

Sankt Goar is connected via the federal highway 42, which runs along the Rhine with the major cities of Koblenz and Wiesbaden. In addition, in St. Goar starts the federal highway 274 which leads over the plateaus of Hintertaunus into Aartal.

The connection between Sankt Goar Sankt Goar and is maintained by the ferry Loreley. About the pros and cons of replacing this ferry by a bridge, is disputed for decades. The regional planning process for this bridge was started in January 2011 and it is called in the media Middle Rhine bridge. The main argument for the construction of the bridge is a possible economic recovery. Critics point out that in order to strengthen the infrastructure is sufficient, a continuous 24 -hour ferry service. This can be used to cover costs but by a private ferry company without public funding not. A state-run and free Rhine ferry as in Plittersdorf is not currently contemplated.

The Sankt Goar Station is located on the right bank route and binds the location of trains on Wiesbaden to Frankfurt and Koblenz. Until 1956/57, one of the branches of the Nassau small railway ended at the harbor station and connected the place with Nastaetten.

Cycling and walking routes

The new right bank trail over the hills of the Rhine Valley, the Rhine climbing, via the Loreley.

St. Goar is the starting point of the Lorelei Aar Cycle Route, which starts at the train station and performs on the old route of the light railway Nassau.

Education

Firmly rooted in the history of St. Goarshausens is the tradition of the "Institut Hofmann ," today " Wilhelm Hofmann -Gymnasium ", which characterizes for the past 150 years, the cityscape St. Goarshausens.

End of the Second World War, the old Institute was destroyed and built the present school. 1984 Lorelei hall was erected in St. Goar, which is used primarily as a school gymnasium, but also from the town of St. Goar and may be shared by clubs. 1991 took place the last major expansion of the Wilhelm -Hofmann -Gymnasium with the stocking of the Rhine side transverse construction.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Klaus left Bach (1932-2000), composer and church musician
  • Karl Lotichius (1819-1892), banker and politician
  • Eduard Lotichius (1847-1908), businessman and politician
  • Franz Preuschen of Love Stone (1845-1908), gynecologist
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