OBERSALZBERG 1

If you want to see all there is to see on the Obersalzberg, you have to go beyond the touristic standards like the (very good) documentation centre and the Kehlsteinhaus. The area is not that big, so a strawl around the mountain can be done in a few hours. The information on the Obersalzberg pages is presented in the order of a walk around the mountain. You can start the walk at the Parkplatz near the documentation centre.

1. Platterhof and Pension Moritz

2. Kampfhäusl

3. Gästehaus Hoher Göll

4. Berghof

5. Bormann Tree

THE HITLER PAGES

HISTORICAL HITLER SITES

Obersalzberg 1 weergeven op een grotere kaart

Berghof (4)

Location: Go past the Documentation Centre ino the woods, follow the path downhill, the Berghof ruïns turn up at your right. The path running past the foundations runs right across the Berghof site. The front of the house was a little over the edge of the hill.

Today: Only the foundations of the back of the Berghof are visible.

Haus Wachenfeld was a house on the Obersalzberg where Hitler used to go before he became the leader of Germany. The house got transformed to the Berghof later. Hitler went to the Berghof many times. A lot of important people from all over Europe came to visit Hitler here.

The large hall inside the Berghof

(picture: Rochus Misch, 2008)

The Berghof was blown up on April 30, 1952...

Above: Two pictures of the bombed Berghof, just after the war

Hitlers study. In the corner (left picture) was the entrance to Hitlers bedroom.

Haus Wachenfeld

Hitler in the living room of

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

Above: Three pictures of the terras

of the Berghof

A row of admirers of the Führer

Hitler and Mussolini on the

stairs of the Berghof

A Lagebesprechung with Mussolini inside the Berghof

The famous large window of Hitlers villa in 1943

The Berghof with the

Hoher Göll behind it

All that remains of the Berghof

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

The view from the Berghof site to the place where the guardhouse used to be (picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

The remains of the Berghof

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Above the ruïns is this unidentified concrete. It’s probably part of the watersuply of the Berghof

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Looking down upon the site where the Berghof used to be

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Left: Right over the edge are some more Berghof related leftovers.

The two pictures in the centre:

Other Berghof remains

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Downhill, on the right side of the Berghof site when facing the foundation, you can find this bunker entrance (picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Some other remains of the Berghof (picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

The view from the Berghof site in autumn (picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

The foundations of the backside of the Berghof. (pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

The bedroom of Eva Braun

Gästehaus Hoher Göll (3)

Location: Downhill from the parking place

Today: Renovated. It’s become a Documentation Centre conserning WW2 on the Obersalzberg.

Gästehaus Hoher Göll was ment to be a place where special guests could stay. It was also used as Borman’s administration building. The lower parts of the renovated building, made of stone, still look like the original building. The Documentation Centre is worth a visite. There’s an entrance to the bunkersystem inside, open to the public.

If you’re interested in the bunkers you should also go to the Hotel zum Türken. There’s another bunker entrance there. A blocked entrance to a tunnel leading to the rooms of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun is there.

Left: The guesthouse as it was

Right: The guarded guesthouse

The Documentation Centre as seen from the parking place

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

The renovated guesthouse has become a good Documentation Centre. (picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Almost the same view as the picture above. The new building is much lower than the original.

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Look here for pictures of the bunkers underneath the Gästehaus Hoher Göll

The Bormann-tree (5)

Location: On the beginning of the driveway to the Berghof: the lower of the two paths you can see going up to the Berghof, when 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 though the tree is cut down, it’s still there. It has turned into bushes. In November 2006, after the Obersalzberg had been cleaned up, the remains of the tree are very hard to locate. Trees were cut down, bushes were removed, all around the mountain.

The Bormann-tree is next to the second drive way on the right side of the picture.

The same site in 2006. You can still see the beginning of the driveway. (pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

The driveway and the tree on the 3rd day of April, 1944.

The Berghof after it was bombed. The tree is still there.

Kampfhäusl (2)

Location: Behind the Platterhof restaurant. Looking towards the woods behind the restaurant you’ll see a powerhouse across the road. When you walk into the trees behind it, in the opposite direction of the Platterhof-parking place and go a little uphill, you’ll see it within a minute. It’s not so hard to find.

Today: Only the foundations are still there.

Hitler wrote a part of Mein Kampf in this little dependance of Hotel Moritz. It seems to be a sort of neo-nazi-hotspot, because there were little candles on the stones lighted for the dead führer on several occasions we were there.

The Kampfhäusl

In the woods behind this power house are the remains of the Kampfhäusl

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Hitler in front of the Kampfhäusl

The remains of the Kampfhäusl are hidden in the woods (pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

The Kampfhäusl foundations again (picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Some admireres still visit the mountain to light a candle...

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

The view downhill from the Kampfhausl. You can see the street behind the Platterhof parking place through the trees.

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Platterhof and Pension Moritz (1)

Location: Parkingplace Obersalzberg

Today: Most of the Platterhof has been torn down around the year 2000.

Adolf Hitler often came to Pension Moritz untill 1926. Years later the hotel was replaced by Platterhof. When the Platterhof was torn down, parts of the pension’s ceiling were still there. Hotel Platterhof was ment to be a hotel were every German could spent a night near the Führer. After a dramatic period of building (large parts were torn down and rebuilt over and over) the Platterhof became a place where only important partymembers came. 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.