By Francois Murphy. VIENNA Reuters - As anti-racism protesters topple statues of slave traders and colonisers worldwide, some nations are pondering how to mark their dark past. Austria recently unveiled plans to convert the house where the Nazi leader was born, in the town of Braunau am Inn on the German border, into a police station. An architectural competition is to be held to determine the building's exact future.
Interior Minister Wolfgang Peschorn said this would "prevent any renewed form of National Socialist activities. Austria's constitutional court has ruled government seizure of Adolf Hitler's childhood home in Braunau am Inn was lawful. The Austrian government had seized the home because it was a meeting place for neo-Nazis. Visit the new DW website Take a look at the beta version of dw. Go to the new dw. More info OK. Wrong language? The disruptive changes of the last few centuries will be stripped away layer by layer.
Marte Architects hopes the end result will be a contemporary building that mirrors the form of the previous buildings. Behind the main building, in an area where a distillery was formerly located, a modern extension will be built that takes its style directly from the existing building.
Following the second world war, the property at Salzburger Vorstadt 15 was returned to its pre-war owners and has since been used as a bank, a school and a daycare centre, but has been empty since the Lebenshilfe charity vacated the building in It was purchased by the state in , however, the former owner fought the government's purchase in the Austrian Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights, as well as contesting the amount of compensation in the country's civil courts.
The architectural competition to design the police headquarters was launched after the resolution of court proceedings in Marte is now welcoming the challenge of designing a building appropriate for the historic and controversial site.
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The house where Nazi dictator Adolf Hilter was born will now be turned into a police station. The sleek new design seeks to "neutralize" the politically and historically charged building and to deter neo-Nazis. The Austrian government revealed the winning plan to redesign Adolf Hitler's birth house on Tuesday, with the yellow building set to become a police station.
The move follows decades of debate over what to do with the building in the northern Austrian town of Braunau am Inn where Hitler was born in April and spent the first months of his life. The police are the protector of fundamental rights and freedoms," Nehammer said. Architects hope the design will help neutralize the site, so that neo-Nazis are no longer drawn to it.
Austrian architecture firm Marte. The plans, however, do not tamper with the substance of the original building, but give it a fresh facade. Read more: Hitler's birthplace: Legal battle finally ends. There is currently little to indicate that the yellow corner house in Braunau am Inn was the birthplace of the man who would rise to become the leader of Nazi Germany, trigger World War II and carry out the Holocaust. There are no plaques, save for an engraved rock in front of the house that reads: "Fascism never again" but does not mention Hitler by name.
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