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

Haus Lenert

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.

Haus Doss

Neu Doss was constructed as a two-storey dwelling in 1883 by the sculpture painter and manufacturer Dominik Anton Moroder, youngest brother of the painter Josef Moroder Lusenberg. There was a painter's workshop for ecclesiastical art on the ground floor that, before the First World War, employed up to ten assistants  Son Heinrich ran the painter's workshop until into the 1960s, and the fourth generation are still running it from Haus Rumanc next door.

Haus Costa

The building was bought at auction and converted in 1830 by Josef Senoner da Costa, a Gröden businessman in Nuremberg. In 1899, Franz Moroder (de Lenèrt) purchased the house and transferred the headquarters of his 'Gebrüder Moroder' company there from Plandemureda. He also opened the first bureau de change in Gröden in Haus Costa. The hay barn next door belonging to the old farm site is still in its original state.

Villa ANRI

Villa ANRI in St. Christina, now a listed building, newly built in 1925, was used as the headquarters of the ANRI company founded in 1921 by Anton Riffeser. For this purpose, workshops, offices, warehouses, packing and exhibition spaces were housed here. ANRI products were sold as far away as the USA and in its heyday, the company employed up to 230 people. Production was moved to premises at Plan Tiefa in 1952 and ceased in 2021.

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.

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.

Haus Bugon

After the 1830s, Haus Bugon was the seat of 'Insam & Prinoth', one of the largest pre-First World War toy manufacturers in Gröden. The company had a branch in Nuremberg in 1820 and, later on, one in London. There was a large warehouse as well as the manufacturing premises with offices and packaging workshop housed in a stable and the goods were transported from there to the point connecting up with the railway network.