Biography on hitlers childhood home

Adolf Hitler lived in several places during his childhood, due to his father Alois’ job in the Austrian Customs Service. In 1898, at the age of nine, Hitler and his family arrived in Leonding, a small town that today is practically a suburb of the Upper Austrian city of Linz.

Alois Hitler was by now retired after forty years of service to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but his attempt to farm at Lambach had ended in failure, hence the move to Leonding.

Biography on hitlers childhood home

This period was also marked by violent arguments between Alois and his oldest surviving son Adolf.

Alois Hitler

Alois purchased No. 16 Michaelsbergstrasse, a small, two-storey brick structure opposite the entrance to St.

Michael’s Roman Catholic Church. Both structures survive intact today. Adolf Hitler was a choirboy in the church and regularly attended mass.

The Hitler house, Leonding. Copyright Mark Felton 2017

The view of St.