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
Berndorf, Lower Austria not even spared the forces of nature. The floods in 1939 and 1944 were the most destructive floods in the history of the Triesting river. When the war had ended, the metal company was confiscated by the Soviet Army and incorporated into the USIA. In 1957, it was given back to the State of Austria and merged with the "Vereinigte Aluminiumwerke Ranshofen (VAW)". Because of financial problems of the socialised industries in the 1980s, the Berndorf consortium was spun off and passed into private hands. The annual theatre festival takes place in the municipal theatre of Berndorf every summer. Berndorf,