The Upper Austrian communities of Vorderstoder and Hinterstoder in the south of the Traunviertel have put a joint Topotheque online under the name Stodertal. The alpine location of the communities with large areas of forest made the area a destination for tourist excursions in which hunting was the main focus even before the era of alpine sports, as the photographs with Duke Wilhelm of Württemberg from 1886 show. The picturesque beauty of nature, framed here by the backdrop of the Dead Mountains, was also a frequent motif in artistic depictions. In addition to the historical aspects of the largely undeveloped landscape, these also show the typical staging of the places of longing. The rare images always include early photos from everyday working life and therefore photos of the timber delivery are wonderful documents of the dangerous working life of the “Holzknechte” (lumberjacks), as the forest workers were called back then. Presumably intended as a shelter for hunters and forest workers, the protective cave at Großer Priel may be considered the region‘s earliest tourist quarters. With the advent of mountain and winter sports, the Stodertal transformed into an early tourism destination, which itself became the identity of the communities, as can be seen in the Alpineum, the museum for the Alpine development history of the Dead Mountains. Aside from tourism, the photos that remind the residents of the Stodertal of their own past are of great importance. There are the photos of baptisms, kindergarten and school, first communions, confirmations, festivals, celebrations, balls, theater performances, openings, club life, parish, the pictures of funerals but also many snapshots from club life and everyday life – who knows what did the Raiffeisenkasse look like from the inside when you were a child?