!!!Braunau am Inn

Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, town in the district of Braunau am Inn, 
alt. 351 m, pop. 16,264, area 24.83 km%%sup 2/%, Bavarian 
fortified city and road connection at the confluence of the Enknach 
river and the Inn river in the Innviertel region in Upper Austria. - 
District commission, district court, employment service, office of 
weights, measures and surveying, hospital, Chamber of Labour, Economic 
Chamber, District Chamber of Agriculture, District Waste Commission, 
regional medical health insurance, multi-purpose hall, stadium, youth 
centre, Gymnasium and, Realgymnasium secondary schools, HAK 
(commercial academy), HTL (upper-level secondary industrial college), 
HBLA (upper-level secondary domestic science college), medium-level 
secondary technical and vocational colleges, HTL and foreman's 
training centre organised by the Vocational Training Institute (BFI), 
adult education centre; the city has a strong focus on trade and 
industry (58 % of the 10,917 people employed work in these sectors): 
wood and metal processing ( Austria Metall AG) in the village of  
Ranshofen, which is within the municipality; cable harnesses for the 
automobile industry, scales, bed insets, shoes, clothes; glass and 
electronics industry, glass refining, water technology. Run-of-river 
power station of B.-Simbach (built in 1953, 2571,100 MWh).

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First documented mention in 1110, became a city in 1260-1290, 
flourished in the 15%%sup th/%  century (shipping on the Inn river, 
salt trade, weaving). The Innviertel region became part of Austria in 
1779, but reverted to Bavaria from 1809-1816. Birthplace of  Hitler . 
- Late Gothic parish church (1439-1466) with neo-Gothic interior, the 
church tower (99 m) is the symbol of the city. Gothic hospital church 
(around 1430, hexagonal ground plan), part of the city hospital; 
former church of St. Martin (1457, turned into a war memorial in 
1957); former Capuchin monastery (1621-1624, today the church 
functions as a theatre); relics of the fortification wall at the 
Salzburger Tor arch; former armoury; old houses with triangular gables 
(15%%sup th/% -19%%sup th/%  centuries). District museum of regional 
history and art at Herzogsburg Castle; bell-foundry.

!Literature
Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch, vol. I, 
Oberoesterreich, 1968; F. Gallnbrunner et al., Der Bezirk Braunau, 
1974.


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