Austrian authorities got the green light and have asked architects to submit plans for a building that would replace the former home where Adolf Hitler was born, Austrian media reported on Tuesday.
On Monday, Austria's highest court put an end to a row over the house where Adolf Hitler was born, rejecting the amount the former owner had demanded to be compensated in return.
The government took control of the dilapidated building in December 2016 after years of legal wrangling with the family who owned the yellow corner house in the northern town of Braunau am Inn, not far from the border with Germany, for nearly a century.
Austrian authorities have been keen to prevent the premises, where Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.
Although he spent only a short time at the property, it continues to draw Nazi sympathizers from around the world.
In January, a regional court ruled that the state should pay the family 1.7 million dollars in compensation.
But another tribunal overturned this verdict in April, finding that the current market price – set by a court-appointed expert – would constitute an appropriate amount of compensation.
Austria's highest court has now upheld the April ruling, meaning that the family will receive less compensation than it sought but still more than had been originally offered.
"After the court's decision on compensation, a use for Hitler's birth house can now be found within the framework of the law to prevent any sort of Nazi-related activity," Interior Minister Wolfgang Peschorn said in a statement.
Authorities will invite submissions from architects about the future of the site, the statement said without giving further details.
This article was originally published by i24NEWS.
