SPITAL, DOLLERSHEIM

Birthhaus Klara Pölzl and house were Alois Hitler grew up
Location: main road in Spital, number of the house unknown
Today: one of the houses still stands, the other one has been replaced by a new house
The great-grandfather of Hitler, Martin Hüttler, moved from Walterschlag to Spital. The two houses of Klara and Alois are next to eachother. The right one is the house were Alois Hitler grew up, the left one is the house of Klara Pölzl. Adolf went to Spital on different occasions, for instance in 1905 when he recovered from an illness. Hitler was in Spital in 1917 and 1918 for a short leave during the first World War, visiting his family that still lived there. There’s not much family of Hitler alive today. The halfbrother of Adolf, Alois moved to England. He had a son called William Patrick. William Patrick had four sons in America. One of them isn’t alive anymore and it is said that the other three don’t want to have children... They live somewhere in America under the name of their mother.

Left: A bad picture of both houses, with on the left Klara’s house and on the right Alois house Right: A closer look at Alois house

The village of Spital. Left and centre: 1950 (pictures: LIFE-magazine).

Right: Today (picture: the Hitler Pages, used by permission).

The houses of Klara and Alois, as made in 1950. (pictures: LIFE-magazine)

Left: Spital today.

Right: The Alois-house is still there. (pictures: the Hitler Pages, used by permission)

Spital

Spital is a village near the Czech border, just under Gmund and west of Zwettl in Niederösterreich. The larger roads leading to the region are the 38/41 from Freistadt and the 119 from Zwettl. But watch out: there’s also a town called Spital in the south of Austria.

Left: the graveyard in Spital Right: The grave of the Pölzl-family

Graveyard
Location: church, in about the centre of the village, facing east, turn right
Today: still there
Several family members of the Pölzl and Hitler family were burried here.

The graveyard of Spital in 1950. (picture: LIFE-magazine)

Above and right: the graveyard today. Notice the same cross as in 1950. (pictures: the Hitler Pages, used by permission)

The grave of Anton Stütz in 1950. (picture: LIFE-magazine)

The same location now. (picture: the Hitler Pages, used by permission)

The grave of Gottfried Hütler. (picture: LIFE-magazine)

The graveyard today. (picture: the Hitler Pages, used by permission)

Spital

Walterschlag

Döllersheim

Strones

Rastenfeld

Horn

Walterschlag
Location: south-west of Spital, 48’39’06’32”N 14’53’18’94”E, exact location birthhouse unknown
Stephan Hiedler was born in Walterschlag in 1672.

Walterschlag

Family grounds of the Hitler family
Location: Strones is not on the map anymore, but was near Döllersheim.
Today: after the war there were only ruïns of the village, what’s left of it is unsure
As birthplace of Alois Hitler are mentioned Döllersheim and Strones. Maybe Strones was a little village near Döllersheim. Together with other places it was whiped of the map.

The ruïns of Strones

Strones

Area the Hitler family came from
Location: Above the Ottenstein Stausee, northeast of Zwettl is the place were Döllersheim used to be. In the triangle between Zwettl, Horn and Allentsteig are military training grounds.
Today: The church and graveyard of Döllersheim have been restored.
Adolf Hitler gave the order, in 1938, right after the Anschluss to change the region, including the birthground of his father and the grave of his grandmother into military training grounds. Villages were wiped of the map. Was it because of the speculations about his grandfather?
Maria Anna Schicklgruber married Johan Georg Hielder (son of Martin and probably grandfather of Adolf) in Döllersheim.

Döllersheim

Pfarrhaus Rastenfeld
Location: Village on the 38/37 road, between Zwettl and Krems; near the military training grounds; exact locatipn unknown.
In this village near Döllersheim there was a Katholic Pfarrhaus. There were documents found of the church of Döllersheim that mention the father of Adolf Hitler.

The house in Rastenfeld were documents about Alois Hitler were found

Rastenfeld

Höbarth Museum
Location: Near Zwettl, northwest of Vienna, Wiener Strasse 4
Today: must still be there
In this museum are some belongings of Maria Anna Schicklgruber, that were taken from a house in Strones (house 13).

Horn