Braunau am Inn concentrate on accounting for the past; the town's administration awards the Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Award, named after native diplomat Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer, to honour committed Austrians abroad. Several ' were installed in Braunau by the artist Gunter Demnig. Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn where his father Alois Hitler served as a customs official. He and his family left Braunau and moved to Passau in 1892. Hitler was born in an apartment building recorded at Salzburger Vorstadt 15 in an 1890 register, which housed a craft brewery and several rental flats, one of them occupied by
Braunau, Switzerland cottage industry. Since about 1895 timber industry has been in the village with some carpentry and a sawmill. Until 1998 it was part of the municipality of Tobel. Braunau has an area, , of . Of this area, or 68.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 25.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.2% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.7% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 0.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.5%. while parks, green belts