Scurcià is considered one of the largest medieval farm sites in St. Ulrich, having been divided up and given rise to a number of different farmhouses. A workshop was set up in Haus Scurcià which produced a lot of well-known 19th-century sculptors. The altar builder, Leopold Moroder, extended the house in 1900 into a café and funded the already-existing 'Kastanienallee'. The house today is a new construction from 1981 by Giorgio Moroder, the disco music pioneer and Oscar prizewinner.

Franz Martiner Senior da Kuenz, himself a manufacturer and son of a trading family based in Valencia, had the turn-of-the-century villa complete with production and despatch facilities built in 1897. He later passed the altar-building business that he had set up one year previously on to his son Franz Jr. Like many other Gröden altar builders, Franz Martiner's company exported to other countries in the pre-1914 Habsburg empire and was awarded the title of Chamber Supplier from Archduchess Maria Theresa von Braganza.