Linz

Linz has the unfortunate distinction of being Adolf Hitler’s favorite city.  He was born in Austria, went to school in Linz but was a very bad student. He also lived in Vienna and then Munich where he tried to be an artist then architecture but he was very bad at both.During the war Hitler wanted to redesign the city so he had over 200,000 workers cutting stone at a nearby granite quarry where conditions were horrendous and half died.  Now one building is a museum.  

The city square is unique as it was not built around a church.  A column in the center commemorates those who died from the black plague, fires and wars. Mozart wrote the Linz Symphony in three days while staying here in 1783, he was 23 years old and the music was for 15 instruments.

St. Mary’s Cathedral, also known as Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, is comparable to the one in Vienna but is one meter shorter by law.  Truely beautiful.