Gasthof zum Pommer
Salzberger Vorstadt 15 (before Vorstadt 219)
Today: shop, building still there
Adolf Hitler was born in this Gasthof on April 20 1889. In the grillwork above the door of the house are the initials MB, which is said to stand for Martin Bormann. There’s a granite stone in front of the house, from Mauthausen concentration camp. It says: ‘FüR FRIEDEN FREIHEIT UND DEMOKRATIE NIE WIEDER FASCHISMUS MILLIONEN TOTE MAHNEN’. The family lived here until August of 1892. Hitler visited Braunau when the Anschluss took place, but after that he never went back.
Salzberger Vorstadt 15 (before Vorstadt 219)
Today: shop, building still there
Adolf Hitler was born in this Gasthof on April 20 1889. In the grillwork above the door of the house are the initials MB, which is said to stand for Martin Bormann. There’s a granite stone in front of the house, from Mauthausen concentration camp. It says: ‘FüR FRIEDEN FREIHEIT UND DEMOKRATIE NIE WIEDER FASCHISMUS MILLIONEN TOTE MAHNEN’. The family lived here until August of 1892. Hitler visited Braunau when the Anschluss took place, but after that he never went back.
Stadtpfarrkirche St. Stephan
Kirchenplatz 15
Today: still there
Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl get married here on January 7, 1885 at 6 o’clock in the morning. They had to have dispansation from Rome for the marriage, because Klara was Alois niece in the second grade. Hitler must have been baptised in the same church on eastermonday at 15.15 hour by pastor Ignaz Probst.
Kirchenplatz 15
Today: still there
Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl get married here on January 7, 1885 at 6 o’clock in the morning. They had to have dispansation from Rome for the marriage, because Klara was Alois niece in the second grade. Hitler must have been baptised in the same church on eastermonday at 15.15 hour by pastor Ignaz Probst.
Simbach
Kloster der Englischen Schwestern
Simbach is a small townon the German side of the border just opposite to Braunau. The bridge across the river is about 1 km. away from the Kloster. On the other side of the bridge the road leads to the main street of Braunau.
Today: it’s still a place led by English sisters, but it’s become a home for the elderly and sick
Eva Braun was in the boarding school of the Schwestern for 9 months in 1928-1929.
Kloster der Englischen Schwestern
Simbach is a small townon the German side of the border just opposite to Braunau. The bridge across the river is about 1 km. away from the Kloster. On the other side of the bridge the road leads to the main street of Braunau.
Today: it’s still a place led by English sisters, but it’s become a home for the elderly and sick
Eva Braun was in the boarding school of the Schwestern for 9 months in 1928-
An old picture of the city of Braunau
Two old pictures of Hitlers birthhouse. On the left one it’s the one on the right; on the right picture it’s the house in the centre, next to the tree
Bridge across the Inn
Location: the road between Simbach and Braunau is called the Innstrasse; exactly between both places runs the river Inn; the places are joined by the bridge
Today: the steel bridge is not longer there (a concrete bridge was built), but the houses still look the same
Pictures from Heinrich Hoffmann’s propaganda book Hitler in seiner Heimat show the Führer in Braunau, on the bridge over the river Inn and in the street were he was born.
Location: the road between Simbach and Braunau is called the Innstrasse; exactly between both places runs the river Inn; the places are joined by the bridge
Today: the steel bridge is not longer there (a concrete bridge was built), but the houses still look the same
Pictures from Heinrich Hoffmann’s propaganda book Hitler in seiner Heimat show the Führer in Braunau, on the bridge over the river Inn and in the street were he was born.
All pictures: Hitlers motorcade on and near the bridge over the Inn.