Gröden owes its first valley road, which ran from Waidbruck to St. Ulrich and opened in 1856, to Johann Baptist Purger, merchant and mayor of St. Ulrich. In creating a link between the valley with the wider world, the road brough new opportunities for the sale of Gröden products and fostered the emergent tourism industry of the era.

In commemoration of Purger’s prescience and achievement, a wooden statue was erected on the Purger bridge at the entrance to the village in 1921. In the road’s centenary year, this statue was replaced with a bronze sculpture. 

Franz Moroder de Plandemureda extended little Lenért farmhouse and set up production of ecclesiastical art as a new branch of the 'Gebrüder Moroder' company. In 1906, he purchased an art school in Offenburg, which was managed by his sons, Eduard and Rudolf. Pre-1914, there were up to 40 artisans working at Lenért and Offenburg at times. His grandson, Norbert, is said to have carried on carving wood in this historical workshop before it closed down a few years ago.

In 1872, Ferdinand Demetz da Furdenen opened the first public training workshop for sculptors in St. Ulrich. The multi-storey building on the eastern edge of St. Ulrich was purchased by the local council in 1938 and the art school that had in the meantime moved out moved back in again. In 1999, a new construction was set up on the spot of the original Cademia building, which houses the art school today.

In remembrance of the soldiers fallen in the First World War a chapel was built next to the parish church at Annabach in accordance with plans by Adolf Keim, an illustrator and teacher at the art school in Gröden. There is a bronze-like 'Pietà' sculpture by L. Moroder from 1921 in the semi-enclosed construction with gabled roof featuring the names of soldiers fallen in both world wars written in plaques on both sides. 

The first church built on Antoniboden land was mentioned in records in the 15th century, but it is older than that. Today's church was completed with its steep gabled roof was completed in 1676 and restored in the 1870s. The side statues at the high altar from 1684 depict both saints Ruprecht and Nikolaus. The Lourdes grotto features minerals from the Seiser Alm mountain pasture, the altarpieces come from Josef Moroder Lusenberg, and the sculptures from Gröden artists.

In 1796, the new parish church was completed on land belonging to Panahof. The end of 1799 saw the consecration of the high altar by the Lombardy altar builder Stampa, which was to be replaced by a neo-romanesque altar by J. Schneider in 1870. Due to an increase in population, a transept was added after plans by J. Rifesser da Stufan, while the sculptoral features come from Gröden artists.