Austria launches action to seize Hitler’s house
I would rather see it demolished than turned into an invader center....
Lucy Hamilton
Braunau am Inn in the news yesterday, an 86 year-old man shot his 81 year-old wife and then shot himself. The town is very beautiful, it's in Oberösterreich, Upper Austria.
Well the house, the Herr Hitler house, it cannot be demolished as Braunau am Inn is an Historic centre and everything in the town is under Heritage protection.
There was already a thread about the house a while ago, so I'm copy and pasting what I wrote from that thread here in this thread.
"This house in Braunau am Inn, my government has leased since 1972 from the owner Frau Gerlinde Pommer.
For some obscure reason, in about 2011, Frau Pommer got into some argument with our government regarding renovations to sections of the property, which she wouldn't allow permission for.
So because of this, all the people who were using it as a centre for disabilities, they all had to move out, and thus since this strange episode the house has been empty, but still owned by Frau Pommer.
I know that there are several proposals if Frau Pommer accepts compensation to sell the house to our government, two of these proposals are to perform the required renovations to the property and then turn it into flats, which is actually what the house originally was. The house was built in the 17th Century, and from the mid-19th Century the entire upper floors were a series of flats to rent.
Another proposal is for it to be not another centre for people with disabilities, but for adult education."
Frau Pommer will be given handsome compensation for her house, it's not being stolen off her. As it has been since 2011 the house needs some serious renovation work done to it, specifically the upper floors.
When they say "seize" in that article you posted, this is incorrect, the Government isn't going to "seize" the house, the house will automatically be transferred to the State ie. specifically the Interior Ministry.