Hospiz Sta. Maria auf dem Lukmanier

In the Middle Ages, the bishop's seat and monasteries were also associated with hospices and hospitals as church welfare institutions for travellers, the sick and the poor. The bishop was responsible for accommodating travellers and those in need of help. At each bishop's apartment there had to be a certain room for this purpose. Special houses were built for the accommodation of strangers, guest houses, xenodochias, in which the sick were also accommodated. The monastery of Disentis also maintained guest hostels. There were even several on Lukmanierweg. The most important was that of the hospice Sta. Maria. It is first attested for the year 1374 as the foundation of the Abbot of Disentis to accommodate and strengthen exhausted travellers. In 1964, the hospice and chapel had to make way for the reservoir. Both were rebuilt on the pass road. The new hospice was inaugurated on August 1, 1965. The construction of the chapel was financed by the NOK and was inaugurated in 1967.

Another hospice is located a little further down in the valley, near Sogn Gagl. The chapel of Sogn Gagl (Sankt Gallus) was first mentioned in 1261 and belongs to a hospice of the Disentis monastery, probably the oldest hospice of the monastery on this route. The building was built from scratch in 1668 and equipped with a stone wedge as an avalanche breaker.  Based on the sources, the hospice of Sogn Gagl seems to have always been on the other side of the path and stream. Placidus a Spescha writes about it in 1803: "In a short hour's walk [from Sogn Gions] beyond the Froda [Middle Rhine] stands the Hospital St. Gall. It is the property of the church of Disentis. Since the war [1799] one can no more wait on the travellers than in the hospital at St. Johann." (PIETH, HAGER 1913: 288f.)