 Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor was a regular visitor of Gries since the territory was full of game, during his hunting expeditions stayed at the "Weißes Rößle” Inn.Gries benefited, until 1560, the wealth created by the mines in the nearby Obernbergtal, having on its territory warehouses and workshops for the manufacture of silver.In 1809 during the Tyrolean Rebellion the General Lefebvre, in retaliation for the defeat suffered by the Saxons troops near Mules, destroyed the station customs at Leug which was definitively closed in 1815.