Hitler birthplace memorial stone

The so-called Adolf Hitler 's birthplace ( Hitler 's birthplace ) is located in the Upper Austrian town of Braunau am Inn, is located in the Salzburg suburb 15 and is a listed building. The former brewery guest house with outbuildings and rental housing, under Adolf Hitler, a cultural center of his party, is not currently used.

History

The address of the house was determined with 1826 suburban 219 and since 1890 with the Salzburg suburb 15 After Braunauer houses Chronicle (Salzburg, 1943) by Franz Martin the Braugasthaus originally consisted of two buildings. The use of the property is detected as an inn since the 17th century, belonged to the later, a stable, a barn, a brewhouse and rental housing. From 1888, the brewery guest house run by Mr and Mrs Dafner.

Among the residents of the house were the end of the 19th century, the customs officer Alois Hitler and his third wife Klara (nee Polzl ), then living with their children in one of the apartments. There was born the fourth of their six children on April 20, 1889 Adolf Hitler, who later became German Chancellor and dictator.

1891 passed the house owner and innkeeper Franz Dafner. His widow Helene Dafner, later married to Jacob Bachleitner, led the inn until 1911 and then sold it. The new owner, Josef Pommer, the guest operating between 1912 until 1938.

In the wake of the "Anschluss " of Austria to Nazi German Reich Martin Bormann acquired in 1938, the birthplace of the "Führer " Adolf Hitler for the Nazi Party to four times the market value. The building was renovated and the use supplied as a cultural center with a gallery and a public library. From 1943 to 1944 paintings and sculptures were in the so-called Braunauer gallery in the leader 's birthplace exhibited by artists from the region, including by Anton Filzmoser, Hermann Mayrhofer ( Passau ), Josef Karl Nerud ( Simbach ), Hugo von Preen, Martin Stachl and Franz Xaver Weidinger ( Ried ).

On 2 May 1945, immediately after Braunau was occupied by American troops, tried a German shock troops to break Hitler's birthplace in the air. The U.S. soldiers prevented this project. On November 1, 1945 " in the place from which once Hitler came into the world," opened a memorial and reminder exhibition about the concentration camps.

1952, the house was returned to the former owners under a provision comparison of the Republic of Austria and also rented by the Republic, where it was used until 1965 as a public library. After the building was briefly in the use of a banking institution. This was followed from 1970 to 1976 the use as a school at the Formation of the HTL Braunau.

From 1977 to September 2011, the house was used as a day-care center and workshop for people with disabilities by the life assistance.

In September 2012, the years of discussion about the use of the house came more to the public. Be debated, the use as a dwelling house or setting up a " house of peace " for social projects and exhibitions.

Since 2000, there have been efforts by the local Association of Contemporary History, which organizes the Braunau Contemporary History Days, among other things, to make purchase by the public, the building and to supply the Holocaust remembrance. The Russian Duma deputy Franz Adamowitsch Klinzewitsch 2012 had other plans: He wanted to collect around two million euros, to buy the house and tear.

Workup and commemoration

In 1989, a Mahnstein against War and Fascism was from the town of Braunau am Inn under Mayor Gerhard Skiba on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Adolf Hitler on the sidewalk in front of the house set up as stonework from Mauthausnerstraße granite. The city had so distanced himself clearly for the first time by the " Hitler tourism," the excesses up to the usual local sale of souvenirs bearing the words " Hitler " is assumed.

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