Horror home of Austrian rapist Josef Fritzl is split into flats and rented out to young people while basement dungeon is filled with concrete
- Josef Fritzl trapped his 18-year-old daughter, Elisabeth, in basement for 24 years
- House in Austria where he imprsoned and raped her is now being rented as flats
The home where monster Josef Fritzl imprisoned and raped his daughter has been divided into apartments.
The Austrian sex beast trapped his 18-year-old daughter, Elisabeth, in his basement dungeon after drugging her with a rag soaked in ether.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009 for incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment, enslavement and for the negligent homicide of one of his infant sons.
And now, in Ybbsstrasse, Amstetten, 70-miles from Vienna, the house’s new owners are renting it out to young tenants.
They told the Mirror: ‘All nine apartments are rented out. There are young people among them who have no connection to the Fritzl case.’
The Austrian sex beast trapped his 18-year-old daughter, Elisabeth, in his basement dungeon after drugging her with a rag soaked in ether. Pictured: The house
And now, in Ybbsstrasse, Amstetten, 70-miles from Vienna, the house’s new owners are renting it out to young tenants
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009 for incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment, enslavement and for the negligent homicide of one of his infant sons
The basement where Fritzl’s daughter was held prisoner has now been filled with concrete while the garage – through which he smuggled food – has been bricked up.
The underground prison featured a heavy metal door hidden behind a shelf in his workroom.
He had made sure only he could gain access to it, installing a keyless, secret code entry only known to him.
Elisabeth was manipulated by her father into thinking that the door was electrified, so that she would be killed if she tried to flee from the shocking abuse.
His daughter disappeared in 1984 for 24 years, while Fritzl told his wife Rosemarie and police she had run off to join a cult – even making her write her mother letters before he posted them from faraway towns.
The victim – alongside three of the seven children she had with him – were freed after she told police she was being held captive during a trip to hospital.
Their other children, Lisa, Monika, and Alexander, then 16, 14 and 12, were brought up by Fritzl and his wife after he claimed they had turned up on their doorstep.
He would even take long vacations to places like Thailand, leaving his victims to deal with power cuts, rats, overflowing sewage and rotting food in their underground prison.
In 1984, Fritzl had rendered his own daughter, Elisabeth, unconscious with a rag soaked in ether and entombed her in an underground prison. Pictured: the underground room
The basement where Fritzl’s daughter was held prisoner has now been filled with concrete while the garage – through which he smuggled food – has been bricked up
The underground prison featured a heavy metal door hidden behind a shelf in his workroom. He had made sure only he could gain access to it, installing a keyless, secret code entry only known to him. Pictured: one of the underground rooms where his daughter was kept
Former Amstetten mayor Herbert Katzengruber told local media: “Nobody wants to talk about it anymore. I won’t make a statement on it. The people are really angry.”
Current mayor Christian Haberhauer said: “No comment, the chapter is closed.”
The rapist’s thoughts have recently been exposed in a deeply disturbing memoir, Die Abgründe des Josef F (The Abysses Of Josef F), which was published in Germany, with the help of Austrian lawyer Astrid Wagner,
Reflecting on his crimes, Fritzl, now 87, said in his memoir: ‘At first it was just a mind game I played. But I got used to it. The idea, which had previously seemed so absurd, so monstrous to me, took shape.
‘One day I knew what I had to do. All that remained was to wait for the right opportunity. On that rainy Saturday morning the time had come. The thought had become action.’
In the book Fritzl – who has changed his name to Mayrhoff – outlines potential plans to move back to Amstetten and ‘perhaps set up a small business there’.
It comes after he recently submitted an application to be transferred to a normal prison. Austrian courts have rejected previous attempts to be moved to a lower-security prison.
Long before he put that ether-soaked cloth over his daughter’s nose and mouth, Fritzl had a record of sexual crime. In 1967, the year after Elisabeth was born, he broke into the home of a 24-year-old nurse in Linz and raped her, holding a knife to her throat.
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