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
Serbs in Austria real number of ethnic Serbs in Austria is estimated to be much higher – e.g. the membership of "Serbische Gemeinschaft in Österreich" ("Savez Srba u Austriji"), an ethnic Serb association in Austria, exceeds 250,000 people. The common estimation is a total of 300,000. The Österreichisch Serbische Gesellschaft (Austrian Serbian Society) was founded in 1936 as "Österreichisch-Jugoslawischen Gesellschaft". Serbs were a notable minority of the Habsburg Monarchy, having settled Central Europe following the Ottoman conquest of Serbia. The Serbs with the aid of Austrian troops occupied Serbia in 1686–91, established the Kingdom of Serbia (1718–39), and occupied it again in 1788–92.