Blütenstraße 9, Urfahr, the Death of Klara Hitler
A quiet late historicist apartment house in old Urfahr where Klara Hitler died of cancer at two in the morning on 21 December 1907, her son Adolf at her bedside. It is the place where the private grief ends and the public catastrophe begins.
À propos de ce lieu
Built in 1886 by master builder Franz Riedl for Josef Grubmüller, this two storey house with its rusticated ground floor and Corinthian portal is the only survivor of a row of four late historicist residences and is listed in the Linz monument register. In May 1907 the widowed Klara Hitler moved into a three room apartment on the first floor with her son Adolf, her daughter Paula and her sister Johanna, seeking the lower rents of what was then the independent town of Urfahr. She was already dying of breast cancer. From early November the Jewish family doctor Eduard Bloch visited daily, dressing the wound with iodoform gauze and easing the pain with morphine, while Adolf slept in the adjoining room. She died here on 21 December 1907, aged forty seven, and was buried in Leonding two days later. Bloch wrote that he had never seen anyone so prostrate with grief. In February 1908 Hitler left for Vienna. Thirty years later the man who had wept in this house returned as dictator, laid flowers on the Leonding grave and planned a crypt for his parents on the Urfahr riverbank, while the community of Dr. Bloch was driven out and murdered. The house is privately owned today and carries no plaque.
À retenir
- 1886 year — The house was built by Franz Riedl for Josef Grubmüller and is the last original survivor of a row of four late historicist residences
- 47 years — Klara Hitler's age when she died in the first floor apartment at two in the morning on 21 December 1907
- 2012 year — The parents' gravestone in Leonding was removed after the grave became a pilgrimage site for neo Nazis
📍 Blütenstraße 9, 4040, Linz