Memorial plaque in Tschagguns "Flight and Memory"

During the National Socialism, Montafon played a significant role as an escape route: numerous persecuted individuals tried, with the help of escape helpers, to flee alone or in groups to the neighboring Switzerland. Many escape attempts failed, not only because Switzerland was increasingly closing its borders and even expelled those who had already entered the country – as in the case of Ernst Eisenmayer, who came from a Jewish family in Vienna. Near the Sulzfluh, he managed together with his cousin Hans von Tschagguns to reach the Prättigau, where, however, they were arrested by the Swiss police and brought back to Austria by train. After a second, again failed escape attempt, Eisenmayer was admitted to the Dachau concentration camp, was later released, and could flee to England. Since 2022, a memorial plaque in Tschagguns remembers Ernst Eisenmayer and other escape stories, which was erected as part of the project "15 Places – 15 Stories".