The Austrian house where Josef Fritzl kept his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered seven of her children has been sold, according to the liquidator of his estate. 
 
 The house in Amstetten, west of Vienna, was sold for €160,000 Walter Anzboeck said. 
 
 State broadcaster ORF cited innkeeper Herbert Hauska as saying his wife and a business partner bought the building and will turn it into apartment units. 
 
 He said it is time “to bring down the curtain” on the house’s past. 
 
 Fritzl imprisoned and repeatedly raped his daughter Elisabeth until his crime was revealed in 2008. 
 
 He was sentenced in 2009 to life imprisonment for incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment, enslavement and for the negligent homicide of one of his infant sons. 
 
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 Fritzl's house in Amstetten. Photo: ORF 
 
 The house where Austrian incest monster Josef Fritzl shut his daughter in the cellar for 24 years has been sold to a woman who runs a local strip club, reports said Monday. 
 
 The Niederoesterreiche Nachrichten newspaper quoted a man named Herbert Houska as saying that his wife Ingrid and her business partner have purchased the building in Amstetten in northern Austria. 
 
 They intend to renovate the house and convert it into flats, he said. 
 
 Other reports said that in addition to the Stadtbrauhof pub, the Houskas also manage Bar Josefine, a local strip club. 
 
 "It can't stay empty for ever. We need to bring life into it. In two years it will be a house like any other," Herbert Houska was quoted as saying. 
 
 "We have lots of trainees, some from (nearby towns) Persenbeug and Ybbs, and so we need employee flats," he told the Niederoesterreiche Nachrichten. 
 
 The Die Presse newspaper speculated that women working in Bar Josefine could be put up in the house. 
 
 The Austria Press Agency cited the liquidator of Fritzl's assets, Walter Anzboeck, as saying that the purchase price was 160,000 euros ($171,725). The keys will be handed over this week. 
 
 The cellar where Fritzl kept his daughter Elisabeth, fathering seven 
 
 children by her, is no longer usable, having been filled with cement in 2013. 
 
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 Her ordeal came to an end in April 2008 when the oldest child, then 19, had to be taken to hospital, bringing the gruesome story to light and attracting massive media interest. 
 
 Fritzl, now 81, was found guilty in 2009 of murder over the death of one of Elisabeth's babies, as well as incest, sequestration and 3,000 counts of rape. He was jailed for life. 
 
 The fate of the house has long been a topic of debate, with authorities initially concerned it could become a gruesome tourist attraction.
– The home where "Austrian incest monster" Josef Fritzl kept his daughter locked in the cellar for 24 years while fathering seven children by her may soon be used to house strippers, the Local reports. Fritzl was found guilty of murder, incest, sequestration, and 3,000 counts of rape in 2009 and sentenced to life in prison. Since then, authorities have worried the house in Austria would become a morbid tourist attraction. But reports this week say the house was purchased for a little under $172,000 by Ingrid Houska, the proprietor of a local pub and strip club. Houska's husband, Herbert, says they plan to turn the house into apartments and "bring down the curtain" on its horrifying past, the Irish Times reports. "We have a lot of apprentices...so we need staff apartments," the Express quotes Herbert Houska as saying. He says other people have also shown an interest in moving in. "It can't stay empty forever," the Local quotes Herbert Houska as saying. "We need to bring life into it. In two years it will be a house like any other." There is one part of the notorious house that will be off limits to future tenants: The cellar where Fritzl kept his daughter prisoner was filled with cement in 2013.