Egervölgy is a sleepy little village with few hundred inhabitants between the towns of Vasvár and Sárvár in Hungary. Right before 1756 there used to be a forest at the territory, however that year Earl Szluha had German families settled there. The name of the village refers to the alder trees of the valley. (Éger is for alder, völgy is for valley) Indigenous German citizens became fully Hungarian in approximately a hundred years’ time.

The settlement got into spotlight in the 90’s when Ernst Zobel, an Austrian entrepreneur offered locals that he would renovate the facades of their houses as well on the occasion of renovating his own house after moving into the village providing they let him decorate fresh white paint with graffiti.

More than thirty houses joined the project. Zobel and his friends bought several houses of the village and held bubbly art festival at summers. That way a typical urban genre, graffiti could be spotted on the farmhouses of a remote village instead of its usual environment. However, after two years the initiative was interrupted by the worsening state of health of Zobel. No more graffiti were drawn, and the village houses were deserted by their foreign owners.

Later restaurants and pubs were opened there by some agile entrepreneurs to wine and dine those admiring graffiti. But soon the peculiar story of Egervölgy came to an end. Nowadays the village has less and less inhabitants, deserted houses decorated with graffiti or not are collapsing and become shadows of the past just like their late owners.