In 1907, altar-maker Josef Höglinger had the Villa Schönblick built beneath the Plajes Hof farm. The villa housed a workshop, rooms for visiting artisans, and a small guesthouse.

In 1926, additional rooms were built in an annex; Höglinger also relocated his workshop to the new premises, replacing its predecessor with a dining room. The Villa Schönblick thus became the Hotel Regina, run by the Höglinger family until its sale and demolition in 2008, after which it was replaced by the Hotel Adler Balance. 

Documents dating to 1288 reference an ‘Ortiseit Hof’ farm in the oldest part of St. Ulrich. After several changes of hands and names over the course of the years (Moritzen, Daverda, Adler) it was eventually established as an inn, and was pur-chased by Joseph Anton Senoner in 1810. The building re-mains under the ownership of the Senoner family to this day.

The forebear of the Hotel Stetteneck was a Tyrolean Art Nouveau style building, constructed by Johann Sanoner on the site of the Janon Hof barn in 1913. The building housed apartments, a butcher’s shop, and, for some time, the Imperial and Royal Post Office.

In 1938, the Stetteneck became an annex of the Hotel Adler, while in the Second World War, it was served as the only Dolomite air raid shelter. In 1962, the Stetteneck became a guesthouse and, in 1972, a fully-fledged hotel which is still run as a family business to this day.

Today’s Hotel Cavallino Bianco is one of the oldest hotels in the valley, and has been welcoming travellers since the far-back 16th century. The hotel is first mentioned by the name of “Weisses Rössl” in the mid-19th century, when it was purchased by Johann Peter Lardschneider.

Today’s Hotel Angelo Engel on the old valley road has always been a hotel, and its roots date back to the 16th century.  Also known as Dëur Dessot, the Beché or the Unteruhrwirt, it is one of the oldest hotels in the village.

In 1896, extensive renovations included the addition of a dining room, veranda and garden. The Demetz family took over in 1913, and upgraded it to hotel status in 1950. The restaurant remained open for many years until the renovations of 2004, when it closed its doors for the last time.

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.

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.

In 1906, merchant Giuani Mahlknecht  built a four-floor Art Nouveau style villa on a field of his parents’ Sneton farm, now considered to be an authentic example of turn-of-the-century architecture in Gröden. Although he intended to expand the Pension Villa Hohenwart shortly afterwards, the First World War upended his plans, and the guesthouse was used to quarter soldiers. As no compensation was paid out to cover damages at the end of the war Mahlknecht had no option but to sell the building, which to-day houses apartments.

The old Wirtshaus zu Ianesc inn (Vedl Ianesc, now the Margherita shop) dates back to the 16th century. Here, in 1679, master Baroque sculptors had a memorable altercation with the ‘dabblers’ of the trade, whose amateur works could all too easily ruin their reputation.

In the 19th century alone, the inn changed hands three times, before Kristian Schmalzl relocated it to a new building next door. Although the Gasthaus zur Traube remained in the hands of the family, was leased out to tenant management from 1907 onwards.

For over two decades, it was possible to take a chairlift up to St. Jakob. The lift ran from today’s Stua Zirm farm up to the meadow below the Jakober Hof farm.

The chairlift, which Robert Höglinger from the Hotel Regina had purchased second-hand, first began running in 1848. In later years, it was converted into a gondola lift, and, in 1960, its ownership was transferred to Hansi Peristi from Banch. The lift was demolished in 1970.

In St. Jakob or, to be precise, from Pertan to the Gasthaus Somont, a small ski lift was also in operation from 1960 to 1969.