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Sankt Goar
Sign in to savetown on the left bank of the Middle Rhine in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Rhineland-Palatinate
- District
- Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
- Municipal assoc
- Hunsrück-Mittelrhein
- Mayor 2019 24
- Falko Hönisch ( SPD )
- Total
- 23.17 km (8.95 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 74 m (243 ft)
- Density
- 125.7/km (325.6/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Dialling codes
- 06741
- Vehicle registration
- SIM, GOA
- Website
- www .st-goar .de
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Sankt Goar ( German pronunciation: [zaŋkt ɡoˈaːɐ̯] ) is a town on the west bank of the Middle Rhine in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Hunsrück-Mittelrhein, whose seat is in Emmelshausen.
Sankt Goar is well known for its central location in the Rhine Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since July 2002. Above the town stand the ruins of Burg Rheinfels, one of the castles for which the Middle Rhine is famous, and across the river lies the sister town of Sankt Goarshausen with its own castles, Katz and Maus (“Cat” and “Mouse”). The famous Lorelei rock is close by, slightly upstream on the opposite bank.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sankt Goar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.