the municipal area included the nearby hamlet of strones, where in 1837 alois hitler, the father of adolf hitler, was born the illegitimate son of the local peasantwoman maria schicklgruber (1795–1847). strones was very small at the time of alois's birth and did not even have a church with a baptismal registry. accordingly, maria went to the döllersheim parish to record the birth with the local priest, who duly entered the information on the baptism registry. the same registry was altered some 39 years later when, in 1876, alois legitimised johann georg hiedler as his father and his surname was changed to hitler.