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Braunau am Inn is a
city in the
Innviertel region of
Upper Austria (
Oberösterreich), the north-western
state of
Austria. It lies about 90 km west of
Linz and about 60 km north of
Salzburg, on the border with the
German state of
Bavaria. The population in
2001 was 16,372. A
port of entry, it's connected by bridges over the
Inn River with its Bavarian counterpart,
Simbach am Inn. It is well-known as the birthplace of
Adolf Hitler.
The town was first mentioned around 810 and received the city statute in 1260, which makes it one of the oldest cities in Austria.
It became a fortress and important trading route junction, dealing with the
salt trade and with ship traffic on the
River Inn.
Throughout its history it changed hands four times. It was
Bavarian until 1779 and became an Austrian town under the terms of the
treaty of Teschen, which settled the
War of the Bavarian Succession. As a major Bavarian city, the town played an outstanding role in the Bavarian uprising against the Austrian occupation during the
War of the Spanish Succession, when it hosted the
Braunau Parliament, a provisional Bavarian Parliament in 1705 headed by
Georg Sebastian Plinganser born 1680 in Pfarrkirchen; and died 7 May 1738 in
Augsburg. Under the terms of the
treaty of Pressburg, Braunau became Bavarian again in 1809. In 1816, during reorganisation of Europe after the
Napoleonic Wars, Bavaria ceded the town to Austria and was compensated by the gain of
Aschaffenburg. Braunau has been an Austrian city ever since.
Braunau has a remarkable
15th-century church with a 99m-high spire, the third highest in Austria. Its patron saint is St. Stephen. The remains of a
castle house a
museum and parts of the former
town walls can still be seen. Another museum is housed in refurbished 18th century public baths.
Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau on 20 April 1889; but he and his family left Braunau and moved to
Linz in
1894. Outside the building in which he was born is a
memorial stone commemorating the victims of
World War II. The stone is made of granite from the Mauthausen concentration camp. It states:
Für Frieden, Freiheit und Demokratie. Nie wieder Faschismus. Millionen Tote mahnen, or "For Peace, Freedom and Democracy, never Again Fascism, Millions of Dead Warn (us)."
In 1938 Ranshofen, which at that time had one of Austria's largest aluminum plants, was annexed to Braunau. In 1948 Braunau had a population of 11,744.
Braunau has a full range of
schools;
industries including
electronics,
metal (
AMAG) and
woodworking, and
glass, it also has the largest aluminium works in Austria.
After two successful seasons, the local
football team, S.V. Braunau, reached the Austrian 1st Division before suddenly going bankrupt in 2000. The team was refounded as F.C. Braunau.
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