Platterhof
The building on the parkingplace
Today: most of the Platterhof has been tore down around the year 2000
The Platterhof was ment to be a hotel were every German could spent a night near to the Führer. After a dramatic period of building the Platterhof (large parts were tore down and rebuild) became a place where important partymembers came to visitl. After the war the Americans used it. It was still there in 2000.
When you look downhill you’ll see the documentation center. On the other side is the busstop for the Kehlsteinhaus. The busstop building is the renovated garage of the Platterhof.
The building on the parkingplace
Today: most of the Platterhof has been tore down around the year 2000
The Platterhof was ment to be a hotel were every German could spent a night near to the Führer. After a dramatic period of building the Platterhof (large parts were tore down and rebuild) became a place where important partymembers came to visitl. After the war the Americans used it. It was still there in 2000.
When you look downhill you’ll see the documentation center. On the other side is the busstop for the Kehlsteinhaus. The busstop building is the renovated garage of the Platterhof.
Left: The Platterhof and the SS-barracks, after the bombing of the Obersalzberg
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Three pictures of the Platterhof area today
Three pictures of the Platterhof area today
Pension Moritz
Part of the Platterhof
Today: doesn’t exist anymore; parking place
Adolf Hitler often came to Pension Moritz in the period untill 1926. It was removed when the Platterhof was build. When the Platterhof was torn down there were parts of the ceiling of the pension still there.
Part of the Platterhof
Today: doesn’t exist anymore; parking place
Adolf Hitler often came to Pension Moritz in the period untill 1926. It was removed when the Platterhof was build. When the Platterhof was torn down there were parts of the ceiling of the pension still there.
Kampfhausl
In the woods nearby the parking place Documentation Centre
Today: only the foundations are visible
Hitler wrote a part of Mein Kampf in this little dependance of Hotel Moritz. It seems to be a sort of holy-neo-nazi-hotspot, because on the two occasions we were there, there were little candles on the stones lighted for the dead führer. Other visitors also mention this on the internet.
If you turn your back to the valley and look at the woods you see a powerhouse across the road (look at the first picture). When you walk behind it, into the bushes, in the opposite direction of the Platterhof-parking place, a little uphill, you’ll see it within a minute. It’s not so hard to find.
In the woods nearby the parking place Documentation Centre
Today: only the foundations are visible
Hitler wrote a part of Mein Kampf in this little dependance of Hotel Moritz. It seems to be a sort of holy-
Berghof
Go past the Documentation Centre ino the woods, follow the path downhill, the Berghof ruïns turn up on your right
Today: only the foundations remain, especially of the back of the Berghof
Haus Wachenfeld was the house were Hitler used to go. That house got transformed to the Berghof. When you’re on the path looking towards the ruïns, you see the back of the Berghof. Were you’re standing is the place were the house was. When you’ve just come around the corner there was a garage with the famous terras on it. When you run further and past the concrete you get to the actual spot were the house was. The frontside of the house was a little over the edge of the hill. You can find some concrete foundation, pathways or whatever they were, there too.
By the way, just before you turn the corner to get to the Berghof site (when you already see the Berghof ruïns), you might wanna take a look downhill. There’s a bunkerentrance there.
When you look above the concrete of the Berghof you’ll probably see leaves. When you’re there in November when the leaves have fallen, you can see, what we thought to be something that has to do with the watersuply. There’s a modern sign of the watercompany there, so there must be some connection. You can climb up there, but you can also go behind Hotel zum Türken to get there.
Go past the Documentation Centre ino the woods, follow the path downhill, the Berghof ruïns turn up on your right
Today: only the foundations remain, especially of the back of the Berghof
Haus Wachenfeld was the house were Hitler used to go. That house got transformed to the Berghof. When you’re on the path looking towards the ruïns, you see the back of the Berghof. Were you’re standing is the place were the house was. When you’ve just come around the corner there was a garage with the famous terras on it. When you run further and past the concrete you get to the actual spot were the house was. The frontside of the house was a little over the edge of the hill. You can find some concrete foundation, pathways or whatever they were, there too.
By the way, just before you turn the corner to get to the Berghof site (when you already see the Berghof ruïns), you might wanna take a look downhill. There’s a bunkerentrance there.
When you look above the concrete of the Berghof you’ll probably see leaves. When you’re there in November when the leaves have fallen, you can see, what we thought to be something that has to do with the watersuply. There’s a modern sign of the watercompany there, so there must be some connection. You can climb up there, but you can also go behind Hotel zum Türken to get there.
The Berghof was blown up on April 30, 1952...
Haus Wachenfeld
Hitler in the living room of
Haus Wachenfeld
Haus Wachenfeld
The transformation of Haus Wachenfeld to the Berghof
The Berghof, the windows on the first floor are the windows of Hitlers bedroom and bathroom
Three pictures of the terras
of the Berghof
of the Berghof
A row of admirers of the Führer
Hitler and Mussolini on the
stairs of the Berghof
stairs of the Berghof
A Lagebesprechung with Mussolini inside the Berghof
The large hall inside the Berghof
The bedroom of Eva Braun
Above: Hitlers study. In the corner was the entrance to Hitlers bedroom
Middle: Two pictures of the bombed Berghof, just after the war
Middle: Two pictures of the bombed Berghof, just after the war
The famous large window of Hitlers villa
The foundations of the Berghof. What you can still see is the concrete of the back of the Berghof
Above: The leftovers of the Berghof
Middle: Downhill, on the right side of the Berghof site you can see this bunker entrance
Middle: Downhill, on the right side of the Berghof site you can see this bunker entrance
A view from the Berghof site onto the place where the guardhouse used to be
Above and left: The remains of the Berghof
Above the ruïns is this unidentified concrete. It’s probably part of the watersuply of the Berghof
Looking down upon the site where the Berghof used to be
Left: just over the edge are some more Berghof related leftovers
The two pictures in the middle: Other remains on site
Right: The view from the Berghof site in autumn
The two pictures in the middle: Other remains on site
Right: The view from the Berghof site in autumn
The Berghof with the
Hoher Göll behind it
Hoher Göll behind it
Gästehaus Hoher Göll
Downhill from the parking place
Today: renovated; it’s a Documentation Centre conserning WW2 on the Obersalzberg
Gästehaus Hoher Göll was ment to be a place were special guests could stay. It was also used for Borman’s administrarion. The lower parts of the building, made of stone, are still ‘original’. The rest of the building has been renovated. There’s a good Documentation Centre inside that’s really worth a visite. There’s an entrance to the bunkersystem inside too, open to the public. (If you’re interested in the bunkers you should also go to the Hotel zum Türken. You can get into the bunkers there two, but you get to see another part of the bunker. There you can see the blocked entrance to the tunnel leading to the rooms of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun.)
Downhill from the parking place
Today: renovated; it’s a Documentation Centre conserning WW2 on the Obersalzberg
Gästehaus Hoher Göll was ment to be a place were special guests could stay. It was also used for Borman’s administrarion. The lower parts of the building, made of stone, are still ‘original’. The rest of the building has been renovated. There’s a good Documentation Centre inside that’s really worth a visite. There’s an entrance to the bunkersystem inside too, open to the public. (If you’re interested in the bunkers you should also go to the Hotel zum Türken. You can get into the bunkers there two, but you get to see another part of the bunker. There you can see the blocked entrance to the tunnel leading to the rooms of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun.)
Above: The guesthouse as it was
Under: The Documentation Centre
Under: The Documentation Centre
Above: The guarded guest house
Under: Almost the same view today
Under: Almost the same view today
The Bormann-tree
It’s on the beginning of the driveway to the Berghof; the lower of the two paths you can see going up to the Berghof standing on the road in front of Hotel zum Türken
Today: The tree is not longer there
Bormann planted a tree for Hitler at the beginning of the driveway of the Berghof so Hitler could stand in the shade when the crowds of fans walked by. It is said that tough the tree is cut down, it’s still there. It has turned into bushes. In November 2006, after the Obersalzberg had been cleaned up, that what is said to be the remains of the tree are very hard to locate. Trees were cut down, bushes were removed, all around the area. There’s also without digging around nothing visible that looks like a more than 60-year-old tree. It’s very unlikely that there is one German gardener who can tell you what the Bormann tree was. Look at the pictures and decide for yourself.
Today: The tree is not longer there
Bormann planted a tree for Hitler at the beginning of the driveway of the Berghof so Hitler could stand in the shade when the crowds of fans walked by. It is said that tough the tree is cut down, it’s still there. It has turned into bushes. In November 2006, after the Obersalzberg had been cleaned up, that what is said to be the remains of the tree are very hard to locate. Trees were cut down, bushes were removed, all around the area. There’s also without digging around nothing visible that looks like a more than 60-
On the black and white picture the Bormann-tree is next to the second drive way on the right side of the picture. The coloured picture in the centre shows the driveway and the tree on the 3rd day of April, 1944. The coloured pictures on the right show the site in 2006. You can still see the beginning of the drive way.
If you want to see the most important things on the Obersalzberg, you have to go beyond the touristic standards: the documentation centre and the Kehlsteinhaus. The area is really not that big, so a strawl around the mountain can be done in a few hours. The information below is presented in the order of a walk around the mountain. You can start the walk at the
Parkplatz Kehlsteinhaus/documentation centre
Follow the signs in Berchtesgaden uphill
Parkplatz Kehlsteinhaus/documentation centre
Follow the signs in Berchtesgaden uphill
The Kampfhausl
The above mentioned power house
The remains of the Kampfhausl are hidden in the woods
The same remains, but from different perspectives
Some admireres still visit the mountain to light a candle...
The view down from the Kampfhausl. You can see the street behind the Platterhof parking place nearby
