Austrian strip club owner buys house where man kept daughter captive in cellar for years
New owner says the building can’t stay empty forever and they need to ‘bring life into it’
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 forever. 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.