Events at the
Wegerhof

The waterfall that gave the Wasserfallspitz its name feeds from a rock delta of jagged rocks in granite stone. The mountain streams swell to torrents during heavy rain and plunge into the depths as rushing waterfalls. Since the terrain cannot store water due to a lack of vegetation, the waters dry up in summer during prolonged drought. The gentle roar that forms the background scenery at the farm, however, does not come from the waterfall peak, but from the three Reinbach Falls, which - invisible from the Wegerhof - rush down the river channel cut into the rock.

In the 1930s (exact records are missing), there was a huge rockfall "Hinter der Höhe", when boulders the size of a family house came crashing down from the Wasserfallspitz. They took countless trees of the Wegerwald with them and remained on the opposite hill. Today, the monoliths lie surrounded by forest at the foot of their mountain.

It was the winter of 1964 when a huge avalanche of snow came crashing down the mountain in the Reintal valley. At that spot, a waterfall falls down into the valley as a gentle spray in summer. The snow remained in the valley, but the shock wave accompanying the avalanche whizzed up the opposite slope to the Wegeralm. The hut was facing this waterfall at the time, which meant that the upper, wooden part of the hut was swept away. All that remained were the remains of the stable walls made of porphyry stones.The owner of the farm at the time decided without further ado to move the hut 100 metres out of the valley. At this point it is better protected and still stands there today. The mountain meadow, as it is colloquially called, is now a designated protected area for rare grasses and plants.

1645, the alpine pastures in the Arvental, in today's East Tyrol, were allocated. The Wegerhof was also to receive some "Gräßer" as a share. A "Graß" refers to a grazing right for a full-grown calf. Until a few decades ago, the arduous journey to the far-flung high valley at an altitude of 2189 metres was taken once a year in herds to conserve fodder for the winter. Even today, our young animals are brought to the Arventalalm, but with the help of smaller cattle trucks.

were driven to the high plateau in Lannebach, situated between Sagernock (2667m) and Wasserfallspitz (2652m). The farm owns grazing rights for twenty sheep and four goats on this mountain slope. The sheep led their own lives up there and often had to be laboriously collected again, sometimes in the Antholz Valley on the other side of the mountain. Today, since sheep farming has largely been abandoned, there are only two hunting lodges in this area, run by the Ahornach hunting district.

a chapel was built at the back of the house with the permission of the prince-bishop's ordinariate of Brixen. According to oral tradition, the intention was to give thanks for the recovery of the seriously ill wife of the farm owner. The chapel was dedicated to the Three Kings. The altarpiece shows the arrival of the Magi.In 1985, a serious ground fault occurred, which caused the apse of the chapel to sink by 20 cm, making the building unusable. Siegfried Oberhofer decided against a difficult renovation and had the chapel rebuilt in 1992 on newly constructed foundation walls in the neo-Gothic style.

During the renovation of the façade in 2003, the windows and parts of the spray plaster were renewed. When a large slab of plaster broke out during the elaborate removal of the historic double windows, a yellow line became visible. Careful tapping of the adjacent spray plaster revealed a knight on a steed.The secco painting was probably applied by an itinerant painter. In the last centuries, itinerant painters went from homestead to homestead to apply so-called "Lüftlmalereien" to the walls of the houses in exchange for board and lodging and a small fee.