Sankt Goar profits greatly from tourism for its central location in the Upper Middle Rhine UNESCO World Heritage Site and its proximity to the Loreley crags. Many businesses offering lodging and restaurants woo domestic and international tourists. In the outlying centre of �An der Loreley� is a campground lying right on the Rhine, �Loreleyblick� (�View of the Loreley�).
In 1240 the Counts of Katzenelnbogen owned a vineyard called Amererberge.
Sankt Goar�s vineyards lie in the winemaking subregion of Rheinburgengau within the Middle Rhine wine region. The local winemaking appellation � Gro�lage � that belongs to this subregion comprises four smaller operations � Einzellagen � around Sankt Goar. Three of them, Rosenberg, Frohwingert and Ameisenberg, lie on the Gr�ndelbach valley�s steep slopes, while the fourth, Kuhstall, lies on the slope on the side of the Rhine Gorge opposite the Loreley. The vineyards are all steeply terraced and are planted mainly with Riesling.
For some years, planning has been under way for a Middle Rhine bridge between Sankt Goar and Sankt Goarshausen. It would be the first bridge across the Middle Rhine on the roughly 100-kilometre-long stretch between Koblenz and Wiesbaden.
The Sankt Goar railway station lies on the West Rhine Railway (Frankfurt � Mainz � Bingen � Koblenz � Cologne; DB route book no. 471) and is no longer staffed.
Sankt Goar has landing stages on the Rhine for various companies that run ships on the river, among them the K�ln-D�sseldorfer line.
Located in Sankt Goar is a court of first instance that has within its responsibilities the functions of Rheinschifffahrtsgericht (a court pertaining to matters involving shipping on the Rhine) and Moselschifffahrtsgericht (the same again, for the Moselle). In this capacity, the court is directly subordinate to the Rheinschifffahrtsobergericht K�ln or Moselschifffahrtsobergericht K�ln, as the case may be. These are both administered through
