A stone memorial stands outside the house at Salzburger Vorstadt 15 in Braunau am Inn where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889. The inscription calls for peace, freedom, democracy, and remembrance of millions of dead. The building was expropriated by the Austrian government in 2017 and converted into a police station to prevent it from becoming a site of pilgrimage. The memorial stone is the only publicly accessible commemoration at the site; the building’s interior is not open to the public. Always accessible and free. Braunau am Inn is on the Austrian-German border, accessible by regional bus from Salzburg or Linz.
monument in Braunau am Inn
Hitler-Geburtshaus Gedenkstein
A stone memorial placed in 1989 outside the house at Salzburger Vorstadt 15 in Braunau am Inn where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889. The inscription reads: "Fur Frieden, Freiheit und Demokratie, nie wieder Faschismus, Millionen Tote mahnen" (For peace, freedom and democracy, never again fascism, millions of dead admonish us).
- Type
- monument
- Destination
- Braunau am Inn
- Cost
- Free to visit
- Founded
- 1989
- Era
- Contemporary
- Address
- Salzburger Vorstadt 15, 5280 Braunau, 5280 Braunau am Inn
- Coordinates
- 48.2563, 13.0360