Innviertel its towns, villages and hamlets. Its Bavarian roots show in the local German dialect, "Innviertlerisch", a Western Central Austro-Bavarian variant similar to the languages spoken in adjacent Lower Bavaria. Innviertel is the birthplace of the physicist Anton Zeilinger, of Franz Xaver Gruber (the composer of "Silent Night"), of the Schwanthaler family of Baroque sculptors, of the SS official Ernst Kaltenbrunner and the conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter. Both Adolf Hitler and the diplomat Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer were born in the town of Braunau am Inn on the German border. Innviertel The Innviertel (literally German for "Inn quarter") is a traditional Austrian region
Stolpersteine in the district of Braunau am Inn They’re installed in front of the former residences of people who were persecuted for different reasons. The 11 Stolpersteine memorialize the Jehovah's Witness Anna Sax (from Braunau am Inn), the four Communists and the Socialist Franz Amberger, Adolf Wenger (both from Braunau am Inn), Johann Lenz and Josef Weber (both from Hackenbuch/Moosdorf), of Franz Jägerstätter (from Sankt Radegund), who refused his conscription orders, of father Ludwig S. Binder (Maria Schmolln), the Sinto Johann Kerndlbacher (of Hochburg–Ach), the victims of the Nazi military legal system and of Michael Nimmerfahl (from Braunau am Inn), who was killed while under Gestapo detention. The