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"Great is the power of memory that dwells in places." (from Cicero)

Haus Pigon

Originally a twin farmhouse, Haus Pigon was converted and given a new façade with red quoins and red window framing. Haus Pigon was the seat of one of the oldest export wood carving businesses in the valley, the Riffeser company (Pigon), set up by Vinzenz Riffeser. Its foundation year is not known, but it pre-dates the First World War. At the end of the 20th century, Pigon was mainly selling imported wood carving products, and in 2012 the company shut down.

Villa Domur

The wood carver Christina Rifesser was running a workshop in the old farmhouse Domur back in 1888. When Matthias Comploy inherited the farmhouse in Tieja from his mother in 1903, he turned it into a turn-of-the-century style villa and set up a private teaching workshop for sculpting and altar-building carpentry. As of 1910, the teacher Albino Pitscheider and his family lived here and Comploy had to auction the workshop after the First World War.

Haus Vastlé

The SEVI company run by Vinzenz Senoner was (together with ANRI of Anton Riffeser) one of the most important employers in Gröden, with 140 employees and 200 workers from home, and it was one of Europe's leading wood carving producers. Haus Vastlé was constructed in 1831 by Senoner's father, Josef Anton, who started exporting small wooden figurines and toys. After construction of factory premises in Pontives in 1965, SEVI company headquarters were transferred there in 1977. Nowadays, there is a new building where the old one used to be.

Maciaconi

Around 1870, Alois (Levisc) Riffesser founded one of the first export businesses for wooden toys and souvenirs at Plan da Tieja. In 1877, he built the several-storey-high Maciaconi building as his home and company premises with shop, which was even mentioned in a poem by Leo Runggaldier about a rattling wooden toy. The building itself and Dossesplatz square became a popular motif for engravings and historical picture postcards.

Villa Venezia

Johann Baptist Moroder, son of Josef Moroder Lusenberg and himself one of the most important Gröden sculptors around 1900, built Villa Venezia in 1903/04 based on his own designs for a residence in neo-Renaissance style with a balustrade featuring marble wooden columns. A sculptor's studio and domed skylight were included. The mills from Planaces farm, the forge with furnace and a sawmill used to be in front of the newly built house.

Villa Argentina

Villa Argentina is reminiscent of a 23-metre high, 10-metre wide high altar built for a church in Cordoba (Argentina) between 1918 and 1920. In charge of construction of the altar - the largest ever built in Gröden - was Josef Stuflesser (Bera Pepi de Petlin), who took over the ecclesiastical art academy in J.B. Purgerstraße after the First World War. Stuflesser bought this house with the proceeds of the Cordoba work and moved his office and residence here.

Cësa Bruma (Villa Stillheim)

In 1887, altar builder Josef Runggaldier Sr. constructed Villa Stillheim in historical country house style on a plot of land belonging to Poz Dessot farm. The façade lending the villa the name of 'Blue House' (Ladin Cësa Bruma) was inspired by business trips to Hungary. Around 18 artisans were working in the firm at Pasperg/Runggaditsch around 1900, and the altars produced there were exported abroad and awarded numerous prizes.

Col dala Pelda

Col dala Pelda is a building representative of the baroque era with tent roof and intricate façade decorations built around 1640 by two ladies from the House of Wolkenstein - hence the coat of arms on the north-eastern side. From around 1700 to 1878 it was the seat of the local court (the stocks were not far away), before becoming a private dwelling. The barn belonging to it was built in 1690 and has been a listed building since 2024.

Ciancel d'Uridl (La Sigata)

The house behind St. Christina parish church is a baroque construction from the 18th century and enjoys listed status. The reddish façades with pretty white patterns connecting the storeys and house edges, the ornamental baroque décor around the windows and the baroque parlours are typical features. The building displays the year 1786 on its north side and was faithfully renovated in the 1920s and 1930s. 

Pescosta Vedla

The farmhouse on the border between St. Ulrich and St. Christina is divided in the direction of the roof ridge. The cellar has been there since the 15th/16th century, the farm since the 13th century. This is where the family of Christian Trebinger, the first baroque sculptor from Gröden, and, after 1651, Melchior Vinazer, who founded the Vinazer dynasty of sculptors and ran a prominent workshop for sacred art, lived. The house was renovated in 1992.