 It served as accommodations, as well as for serving the lumberjacks, stonemasons and miners.Thus, it is known that at the provably oldest inn still existing today on the Turracher Höhe, the ""Seewirt"", there was already an Alpine public house in operation in 1830.Already at the end of the 19th century, the first tourists came for hiking on the Turrach and shortly before the First World War, the first skiers came for extended ski trips.