Location: Salzberger Vorstadt 15 (before Vorstadt 219)
Today: Shop. The building is still there.
Adolf Hitler was born at this Gasthof on April 20 1889. It is known as the Gasthof Zum Pommer, but it didn’t have that name when Hitler was born. Franz and Helene Dafner owned the Gasthof at that time. When Franz Dafner died in 1891, his wife married a man called Jakob Bachleitner. They sold the Gasthof in the beginning of 1912 to a man with the name of Josef Pommer. The Gasthof was called Zum Hirschen, but there was no sign put up with that name. When people went to the Gasthof they said they went to Pommer (‘zum Pommer’). (There was another Gasthof in Braunau that was called ‘Zum Goldenen Hirschen’. It had nothing to do with Hitlers birth.) In the grillwork above the door of the house where Hitler was born are the initials MB, which is said to stand for Martin Bormann. There’s a granite stone in front of the house, from Mauthausen concentration camp. It says: ‘FüR FRIEDEN FREIHEIT UND DEMOKRATIE NIE WIEDER FASCHISMUS MILLIONEN TOTE MAHNEN’. The family lived here until August of 1892. Hitler visited Braunau when the Anschluss took place, but after that he never went back.
Close to the birth house of Adolf Hitler, walking towards the Stadttor, is a building with this drawing on it. It shows the execution of Josef Palm, who was killed by the French in 1806. He gets mentioned on the first pages of Mein Kampf, as a sort of early inspiration of Hitler.
(picture: Shaibal Giri, 2009. All rights reserved. The Hitler Pages, 2011)
(picture: Heinrich Hoffmann, 1938)
Location: Kirchenplatz 15
Today: Still there
Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl got married here on January 7, 1885 at 6 o’clock in the morning. They had to have dispansation from Rome for the marriage, because Klara was Alois niece in the second grade. Hitler must have been baptised in the same church on eastermonday at 15.15 hour by pastor Ignaz Probst.
(picture: Stiwotforum)
(picture: scrapbookpages)
Location: The road between Simbach and Braunau is called the Innstrasse. Exactly between both places runs the river Inn. The places are joined by the bridge.
Today: The steel bridge is not longer there, but the houses still look the same.
Pictures from Heinrich Hoffmann’s propaganda book Hitler in seiner Heimat show the Führer in Braunau, on the bridge over the river Inn and in the street where he was born.
(pictures: Heinrich Hoffmann, 1938)
On April 20, 1889 Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, in a Gasthof that belonged to a family called Dafner. Years later, when Austria became part of Germany, Hitler came back to his birthplace. In 1928/1929 Eva Braun, who didn’t know Adolf Hitler than, was in a boarding school in Simbach, right across the river from Braunau.
1.Gasthof family Dafner
(Gasthof zum Pommer)
2. Bridge over the river Inn
3. Stadtpfarrkirche St. Stephan
4. Kloster der Englischen Schwesestern,
Simbach
HISTORICAL HITLER SITES
Braunau and Simbach weergeven op een grotere kaart
Location: Maria-
Today: It’s still a place led by English sisters, but it has become a home for the elderly and sick.
Eva Braun was in the boarding school of the Schwestern for 9 months in 1928-
SIMBACH
The Mariahöhe in 1926. Eva Braun attended the boarding school that was located there.
Another old picture of the Kloster Mariahöhe
The building today
