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
Trialism in Austria-Hungary Trialism in Austria-Hungary In the history of the Austria-Hungary trialism was the political movement that aimed to reorganize the bipartite Empire into a tripartite one, creating a Croatian state equal in status to Austria and Hungary. Franz Ferdinand promoted trialism before his assassination in 1914 to prevent the Empire from being ripped apart by Slavic dissent. The Empire would be restructured three ways instead of two, with the Slavic element given representation at the highest levels equivalent to what Austria and Hungary had at the time. Serbians saw this as a threat to their dream of a new state of