Spital am Pyhrn is a municipality in the district of Kirchdorf an der Krems in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.
During the Nazi era, an ″Ausländerkinder-Pflegestätte″ was located in Spital, the first such birthing centre in the whole German Reich, where deaths also occurred due to undersupply and neglect.Susanne Lammer: Spital am Pyhrn: der ″Prototyp″ des ″Fremdvölkischen Kinderheims″. In: Markus Rachbauer, Florian Schwanninger, Susanne Lammer, Martin Kranzl-Greinecker (Hrsg.): ″Fremdvölkische Kinderheime″ in ″Oberdonau″, Innsbruck 2026, S. 37-52, ISBN 978-3-7065-6077-1.
Geography Spital am Pyhrn lies above sea level in the Traunviertel. It stretches from north to south and from west to east. The total area of the municipality is . Of this, 63 percent is forested and 15 percent is used for agriculture.
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