Sobre este lugar
In June 1905 Klara Hitler sold the family house in Leonding and rented a third floor flat in this then recently built tenement on Humboldtstraße, moving in with her son Adolf, daughter Paula and her sister Johanna Pölzl. The two years the family spent here were the drifting years of Hitler's adolescence: he had left the Realschule without a certificate, refused to take a job or an apprenticeship, and lived on his mother's pension while drawing, painting, reading and going to the Landestheater almost every evening. It was there, in November 1905, that he met August Kubizek, the only friend of his youth, who later described the small room in this building crowded with sketches for a new bridge, an opera house and a wholly rebuilt Linz. The family left in May 1907 after Klara was diagnosed with breast cancer and could no longer climb the stairs. The building is a private home today and carries no plaque; the city has chosen not to mark it, and visitors are asked to view it only from the street.
Datos clave
- 1905 year — The Hitler family moved into the third floor flat here in June 1905, after selling their house in Leonding
- 10000 kronen — The price Klara Hitler received for the Leonding house, which financed the family's life in Linz
- 2 years — Length of the family's stay before Klara's illness forced a move across the Danube to Urfahr in May 1907
📍 Humboldtstraße 31, 4020, Linz