Fischlham is a municipality in the district of
Wels-Land in the
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
n state of
Upper Austria
Upper Austria ( ; ; ) is one of the nine States of Austria, states of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, and Salzburg (state), Salzbur ...
.
Geography
Fischlham lies in the
Hausruckviertel
The Hausruckviertel is one of the four traditional "quarters" () of the Austrian province of Upper Austria
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. About 19 percent of the municipality is forest, and 69 percent is farmland.
Personalities
It is notable for being the location of
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the lea ...
's first two years of formal schooling, from 1895 to 1897.
Sons and daughters of the location
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Paula Hitler (1896-1960), the only full sister of Adolf Hitler who survived to adulthood
References
Cities and towns in Wels-Land District
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