From left to right: the inside of the church, the cemetery, a hallway and the inner courtyard
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
Benediktiner Monastery/ Boarding School Sängerknaben (3)
Location: Bahnhofstrasse on the Klosterplatz, across the street from Gasthof Leingartner
Today: The monastery is still there.
In the winter of 1897/98 Adolf Hitler lived in the Internat of the Benedictine Monastry of Lambach. In the northwing of the building was the Sängerknaben-Institut, opposite to the Volksschule. An old wooden staircase led to the classrooms and above them were the sleepingrooms of the Sängerknaben. Hitlers teacher heard his good voice so he let him sing with the Sängerknaben. In the schoolyear of 1897-1898 Hitler did the third grade of the Volksschule here. The Volksschule was at the Bahnhofstrasse 1. (4) It is not longer there.
In the yard of the Kloster is a well with a stone archway over it. The shield on it shows a swastika. The shield is dated 1860, long before Hitler was born. There is some discussion about its possible influence on the choice of the swastika as a symbol for the nazi-movement. Because nationalists in Austria often used the swastika as a symbol long before Hitler did, this influence seems to be exaggerated. In Mein Kampf Hitler says at that time he wanted to become an abbot when he grew up. The mythical beauty around him made quite an impression on the young Hitler.
Location: Bahnhofstrasse on the Klosterplatz, across the street from Gasthof Leingartner
Today: The monastery is still there.
In the winter of 1897/98 Adolf Hitler lived in the Internat of the Benedictine Monastry of Lambach. In the northwing of the building was the Sängerknaben-
In the yard of the Kloster is a well with a stone archway over it. The shield on it shows a swastika. The shield is dated 1860, long before Hitler was born. There is some discussion about its possible influence on the choice of the swastika as a symbol for the nazi-
The entrance of the abbey
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
Right: An old picture made inside the abbey. Underneath the swastika the year 1869 is engraved. Twenty years before Hitlers birthday.
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
Right: An old picture made inside the abbey. Underneath the swastika the year 1869 is engraved. Twenty years before Hitlers birthday.
The main building of the abbey
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
The new building on the left (across the Bahnhofstrasse) is where the school was that Hitler went to. The northwing of the abbey is on the right.
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
The main courtyard. Below the stairs is the well with the swastika on the top stone of the arch.
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
The courtyard from two sides
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
The swastika on the top
stone of the arch
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
stone of the arch
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
LAMBACH
Gasthaus Leingartner(5)
Location: Marktplatz/Klosterplatz, right across the road to the Benedictine Monastry
Today: Still there
The family Hitler moved to Lambach in 1897. They lived in this guesthouse for a short period.
Location: Marktplatz/Klosterplatz, right across the road to the Benedictine Monastry
Today: Still there
The family Hitler moved to Lambach in 1897. They lived in this guesthouse for a short period.
Gasthaus Leingartner
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
An old picture of Gasthaus Leingartner (from after the war)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
The abbey and the Gasthaus (end of the street, left) on one picture
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
From left to right: the front of the building with the entrance, the entrance from up close and a picture
of what’s above it (picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
of what’s above it (picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
Schmiedmühle, second floor of the house of ‘Hausher’ and ‘Müller’ Zoebl (6)
Location: Sand 7
Today: Still there. A concrete railway-bridge was built right next to it.
The second house in Lambach where the Hitler-family lived, belonged to a miller called Zoebl.
Location: Sand 7
Today: Still there. A concrete railway-
The main entrance to the property
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
The house on Sand 7
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
The back of the house
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
The view towards the house from underneath the bridge
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
Rauschergut Farm today with the Traunstein mountain in the background
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
Farm Rauschergut (2)
Location: Almsteg 29
Today: Still there
Hitler’s father Alois bought this small farm in Hafeld in 1895. They lived there untill 1897. When he lived here, Adolf went to his first school in Fischlham. The farm in Hafeld is in the homemovies of Eva Braun, as is the school in Fischlham.
Location: Almsteg 29
Today: Still there
Hitler’s father Alois bought this small farm in Hafeld in 1895. They lived there untill 1897. When he lived here, Adolf went to his first school in Fischlham. The farm in Hafeld is in the homemovies of Eva Braun, as is the school in Fischlham.
The road to Rauschergut
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
Rauschergut from up close
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
Drawing of the farm from a
postcard published in nazi-times
postcard published in nazi-
An old picture of Rauschergut
HAFELD
Fischlham school (1)
Location: Kirchenstrasse (about number 6), the school is located near the church
Today: Not longer used as a school. The school has a marker on it ‘zur mahnenden erinnerung’.
The Fischlham school was the first school Hitler attended when he lived in Hafeld from 1895 untill 1897. Hitler visited the school when he was Reichskanzler. The homevideos of Eva Braun show that they visited the school and the Hafeld farm where the family Hitler lived.
Location: Kirchenstrasse (about number 6), the school is located near the church
Today: Not longer used as a school. The school has a marker on it ‘zur mahnenden erinnerung’.
The Fischlham school was the first school Hitler attended when he lived in Hafeld from 1895 untill 1897. Hitler visited the school when he was Reichskanzler. The homevideos of Eva Braun show that they visited the school and the Hafeld farm where the family Hitler lived.
The school (left) and the plate (right) at the entrance that says: ‘Zur mahnenden Erinnerung. Hier hat Adolf Hitler lesen und schreiben gelernt. 1895 - 1897
Nicht Heil: Unheil-Zerstörung und Tod hat er uber millionen Menschen gebracht.’
The right side of the plate shows a stone from KZ-Mauthausen
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
Both pictures on the right: the Volksschule in Fischlham
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
The backside of the school
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
(picture: used by permission, The Hitlerpages)
An undated old picture of the inside of the school
(picture: Hugo Jaeger, LIFE-magazine)
(picture: Hugo Jaeger, LIFE-
FISCHLHAM
Ignaz Kammenhofer’s house (8)
Location: Grünmarkt 19 (later called the Adolf-Hitler-Platz)
Today: Not sure
Hitler lived at the residence of court official Conrad Edler von Cichini. Hitlers room was turned into a shrine by nazi followers. Hitler had never been happy in Steyr.
Location: Grünmarkt 19 (later called the Adolf-
Today: Not sure
Hitler lived at the residence of court official Conrad Edler von Cichini. Hitlers room was turned into a shrine by nazi followers. Hitler had never been happy in Steyr.
Michaelskirche (9)
Location: Michaelerplatz/Kirchengasse
Today: Still there
The painting
shown below is a paiting that is said to have been made by Adolf Hitler. It is revered
to as Schloss Lamberg, but it is the Michaelskirche in Steyr. Schloss Lamberg is
on the other side of the river.The Realschule mentioned above is very nearby and
may be part of the complex.
Hitlers painting of the Michaelskirche (left) and the church today (above)
(picture: wikipedia)
Realschule (Staats-Oberrealschule) (7)
Location: Probably on Michaelerplatz 6
Today: Still on this location
Adolf Hitler didn’t finish the Realschule of Linz. In 1904 he went to the Realschule in Steyr where he finished the basic years of this school. He didn’t want to do the second part of the Realschule. When he got ill, or pretended to be ill, he went to his family in Spital to recover. After that he went back to his mother in Linz. During the two years that followed he didn’t do much but walk and go to Wagner concerts with his friend August Kubizek. He never went back to school.
Today: Still on this location
Adolf Hitler didn’t finish the Realschule of Linz. In 1904 he went to the Realschule in Steyr where he finished the basic years of this school. He didn’t want to do the second part of the Realschule. When he got ill, or pretended to be ill, he went to his family in Spital to recover. After that he went back to his mother in Linz. During the two years that followed he didn’t do much but walk and go to Wagner concerts with his friend August Kubizek. He never went back to school.
STEYR
All four villages on this page have to do with Hitler’s life as a young boy in Austria. Fischlham is the place where Hitler received his first aducation, when he and his family lived in Hafeld. After Hafeld they moved to Lambach, where Hitler went to school at the local monastery. When Hitler was a little older, he went to school in Steyr, after not finishing Realschule in Linz.
1. Fischlham school
2. Rauschergut, Hafeld
3. Benediktiner Monastery, Lambach
4. Volksschule, Lambach
5. Gasthaus Leingartner, Lambach
6. Schmiedmühle, Lambach
7. Realschule, Steyr
8. House of Ignaz Kammenhofer, Steyr
9. Michaelskirche
HISTORICAL HITLER SITES
Fischlham, Hafeld, Lambach and Steyr weergeven op een grotere kaart
