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

Hotel Dolomiti Madonna

In around 1898, painter Christian Delago purchased a house beneath the art school, where he and his wife Josefina Schmalzl established a coffee house; by 1906, they had expanded it to the Dolomitenhotel Madonna. Delago also relocated his workshop to the hotel, which boasted 25 bedrooms, a garden, a veranda, and an art studio for guests.

Marienheim (now the Hotel Maria)

Although the house and workshop which art distributor Franz Schmalzl de Ianesc built on Antonibo-den in 1872/73 was unassuming in size and nature, by the turn of the century the Marienheim had grown to become the third-largest hotel in St. Ulrich— complete with a swimming pool and a dining room which occupied an entire floor.

Villa Grohmann

The turn-of-the-century villa named after Paul Grohmann, the first to climb the Langkofel mountain, was built in 1906 by Konrad Pitscheider de Menza, a sculpture painter and gilder from St. Ulrich, on a plot of land belonging to Pitla Sotria farm. Pitscheider set up one of the most important workshops for the painting of sacred statues and other church decorations at the start of the 20th century on the ground floor. The construction is in its original state and is inhabited.

Haus Lusenberg

The old Lusenberg farmhouse (in Ladin Jumbierch) was converted into a bourgeois dwelling in 1830 by Annamaria Pezlauzer Moroder. She was the grandmother of the sculptor and painter Josef Moroder (1846-1939), who added the name of the house to his own. Moroder Lusenberg set up his painter's atelier, which is still in its original state, on the upper floor. His second wife Felizita ran an antiques business from there. The sculpture workshop on the ground floor is also in its original state. Moroder's grandson, Harald Schmalzl, still works there today as a sculptor.

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.

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.