Braunau am Inn description and photos - Austria: Upper Austria (Topic)

Braunau am Inn description and photos - Austria: Upper Austria. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Braunau am Inn.

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Braunau am Inn is a city in the north-west of Austria. It is located about 90 kilometers west of Linz and about 60 kilometers north of Salzburg, on the border with the German region of Bavaria. The city is part of the Braunau am Inn district.

The city was first mentioned around 810, and the city status of Braunau am Inn was granted in 1260, making it one of the oldest cities in Austria. The city was located on trade routes, was related to the salt trade and shipping on the Inn River. Throughout its history, the city has passed from Austria to Bavaria four times. Until 1779 it was a Bavarian city, but passed to Austria under the terms of the Teschen treaty. Being one of the largest settlements, the city played an important role in the uprising against the Austrian occupation during the War of Spanish Succession.

Under the terms of the treaty, Braunau became Bavarian again in 1809. And already 7 years later, in 1816, during the reorganization of Europe after the Napoleonic wars, Bavaria ceded the city to Austria. Thereafter, Braunau remains an Austrian city to this day.

Braunau has a remarkable 15th-century church with a 99-meter spire, making it the third tallest church in Austria. In addition, the city is known all over the world for the fact that Adolf Hitler was born here on April 20, 1889. He and his family left Braunau and moved to Passau in 1892. In 1989, at the initiative of Mayor Gerhard Skib, a memorial stone was erected in memory of the victims of World War II in front of the building, in which Hitler was born. The stone itself was brought from the Mauthausen concentration camp.

In 2011, the city council canceled the title of honorary citizen, which Hitler had been awarded in 1933.

Interesting to visit is the Museum of Local History tradition of the Inn River area, housed in the former ducal palace, as well as adjacent to it, preserved from the 14th century, a foundry for the production of bells.

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