Braunau am Inn is a city in North-West Austria. It is located about B90 kilometres West of Linz and about 60 km North of Salzburg, on the border with the German region of Bavaria. The city municipality in the district Braunau am Inn.

The town was first mentioned in about 810, and the status of the city of Braunau am Inn has received in 1260, making it one of the oldest cities in Austria. The city was located on the trade routes that had to do with the salt trade and shipping on the Inn river. Throughout its history, the city passed from Austria to Bavaria four times. Up to 1779 it was a Bavarian city, but moved to Austria under the terms of the Treaty of Teschen. As one of the largest settlements, the city played an important role in the uprising against Austrian occupation during the war of the Spanish succession.

In accordance with the terms of the contract, Braunau again became Bavarian in 1809. And just 7 years later, in 1816, during the reorganization of Europe after the Napoleonic wars, Bavaria lost city in Austria. After that, Braunau remains Austrian city to this day.

In Braunau is a fine Church of the 15th century, with a spire height of 99 feet, making it the third tallest Church in Austria. In addition, the city is world famous for the fact that here April 20 1889 he was born Adolf Hitler. He and his family left Braunau and moved to Passau in 1892. In 1989 at the initiative of the mayor Gerhard Skiba was installed a memorial stone in memory of the victims of World war II in the front of the house where Hitler was born. The stone itself was brought from the concentration camp Mauthausen.

In 2011, the city Council has revoked the honorary citizenship, which was given to Hitler in 1933.

Interesting to visit the local Lore Museum of art, folk crafts and traditions of the area of the river Inn, housed in a former Ducal Palace, and coterminous with, preserved since the 14th century, a foundry for the production of bells.