To hear them tell the story it was a journey fraught with danger. Many times they had to leave the train and hide in nearby woods as allied planes flew overhead and at times shot at the train. It was winter and snow was thick on the ground and it was very cold. I was bundled up in blankets and my mother's greatest fear was that she would lose me out of the blankets in the rush and she would not notice. It apparently did happen to someone on the train, so it was quite a legitimate fear.
As it turned out they where absolutely right as that part of Germany was later occupied by the Americans.
They were a more benevolent "enemy" and occupation force than any of the other allied forces!
My UncleWilly and my self at 8 weeks old. My father was at that time a prisoner of war in Italy.
'Here goes'........   My story begins !
Just hope you won't get too bored
At the time it was a small country town. In the "upper" or so called "Neustadt" we had fields and Bauernhoefe. It was very rural. The B&W picture is how I remember Burghausen. Since then it has grown and developed into the very beautiful  place it now is!
The house, then and now.
As far as I know a daughter of the original owners still lives in the house.
Frau Abeling
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About 2 or 3 month after I was born my Mother and my Aunt Toni bundled me up and we went on a perilous journey to Bavaria. My Uncle Edi lived in Burghausen on the river Salzach and that was the destination. They thought it would be safer there.
I was born on the 2. October 1944 in Friedberg in Hessen, in the dying moments of the 2. World War.
My father was in Italy as a POW of the American forces and wouldn't come home for another 4 years
For a while, I don't know how long, we lived in the castle in a tower just like the one in the picture.
Then we moved to the "Neustadt". The address was, and still is, Gauss Strasse 16
and the people who rented us two rooms were
Mr. and Mrs.Abeling.
The longes castle in Europe. Check out the Website !!
Burghausen
an der Salzach
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