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Gutshof
Walking back from the Teehaus site to the golf course. You can see the Gutshof on the other side of the golf course. You can cross the golf course following a path to the Gutshof
Model farm for horses, cows and pigs.

The Gutshof today. It houses a golfclub and a restaurant. (pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Studio and house Albert Speer
On the road in front of the Gutshof you go back uphill to the Berghof, when you look to the right you’ll see the Speer houses very soon; there’s a little road going to the right; when you take it you’ll get to an open field with a lot of remains of buildings that were once there. You can see the Speer houses from there.
Today: look very much the same, private residences
The house of Albert Speer is the higher one of the two houses. Before it was bought in the 30’s, it was a pension. It looks down on his studio, designed by Speer and built in 1939. On the first two pictures of the Gutshof you can see the Speer houses in the back. The house is in the centre, the studio is behind the trees.

Hitler and Speer in the Speer Studio

The former house of Albert Speer.
(pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

The former studio of Albert Speer. (pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Left: The studio and the house.
(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2006)
Right: An old picture of Albert Speers house. (picture: Hitlers Handlangers, 2004)

Field and bushes between Speer’s houses and Berghof and Documentation Centre
How to get there see: Studio and house Albert Speer
There are some remains of buildings or constructions on this part of the mountain too. This must be the area were the workmen, working on the mountain, had their barracks. There was a so called Theaterhalle too. In the bushes around you can find a lot of concrete remains. Behind the bushes opposite to the Speer houses there is the Documentaton Centre.

Guardhouse in front of Berghof
From the Speer houses site, you go back to the road and walk toward the Berghof
Today: Remains of the guardhouse visible
The first (black and white) photo shows the guardhouse with the Berghof in the back. The first two coloured pictures are made in the summer, the other ones in November 2006. The third foto is the view from the Berghof-site on the place were the guardhouse used to be.

The site of the guard house

(coloured pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Hochlenzer Mountain
Location: see map below
Today: still there
Before the takeover of power, Hitler used to come here. When he took a walk on the mountain, he often came to gasthof Hochlenzer.

Gasthof Hochlenzer today

Adolf Hitler on the Hochlenzer mountain

Left and Right: The Klaushöhe today (just before sunrise) (pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)
Centre: The Klaushöhe in the nazi period

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Teehaus Mooslahnerkopf
Go downhill from the Göringhügl on the skipiste. You walk toward a Golfcourse. When there’s noone there you can cross it to go into the woods. You’ll find a path immediatly. You follow the path. Following the path you’ll soon get to a point were you have an open view. You can see the Gutshof, but it’s also a spot were you can look up to the Berghof site. (some wellknown pictures off the Berghof are taken from this spot.) You follow the path into the woods again. It’s a 10 minute stroll to the Teehaus site. The path will split in two. Going right is actually wrong, but it will bring you to an interesting spot were a wall or foundations can be seen. What has been there, we don’t know. When you stand on it you can see a typical Obersalzberg guardhouse below. When you turn back, you must follow the path again. You’ll see the spot of the Teehaus and the little field in front of it in short a while.
Today: Since the summer of 2005 the Teehausruïns have gone. The little field in front of it again looks the same as on old nazi-pictures.
The Teehaus was the destination of the daily walk Hitler used to make when he was on the Obersalzberg. Hitler and his company drank tea and ate cake over there. The actual route Hitler used to take is different from the one mentioned above. Hitler started his walk just beneath the Berghof. When you take that route you can go around the golf course. The first three pictures (above) are from this Berghof-route. From the fourth picture on the both routes are the same.(When you walk around the golfcourse you should stay on the same level of the golfcourse for a while. At one time you have a choise to make. Go downhill or not. You choose not to go downhill.)

The two teahouses on one picture

The Teehaus on the Mooslahnerkopf

Hitler and Himmler walking on the Obersalzberg

Hitler with glasses inside the Teehaus. Pictures with Hitler wearing glasses were never published during the Third Reich period

The field in front of the Teehaus today still looks very much alikethis picture

Hitler and Goebbels on the field in front of the Teehaus

Left: Hitler and Walther Hewel
in the Spring of 1943
Above: Hitler and Speer
Right: Hitler and Blondi

Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in the Teehaus

The route around the golf course (pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Left: the Gutshof Middle: view to the Berghof-site Right: the path to the Teehaus splits in two, go left to the Teehaus, go right to the wall and guardhouse (pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Above: the wall
Right: the guardhouse
(pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Above: the field in front of the Teehaus (pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Right, middle and left: the field and it’s view (pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Left: another view from the field in front of the Teehaus Middle and Right: the area around the Teehaus before the ruïns were removed (pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

All six pictures above: the ruïns of the Teehaus in 2005, just before they were removed (pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Left: one more ruïn-picture Middle and Right: the ruïns have been removed (pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

The Teehaus ruïns in 1954

The (route to the) Teehaus Mooslahnerkopf today:

There are a lot of remains of buildings in this area.

(pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2006)

Villa Bechstein

Location: There was a small road going downhill past the guardhouse. The villa was on this road, somewhere between the Gutshof and the Berghof.

Today: gone

Lotte Bechstein was the wife of a rich piano builder from Berlin. She sometimes invited Hitler at her vacation addres on the Obersalzberg.

Adolf Hitler near the house of

Lotte Bechstein.

Kehlsteinhaus (1785 ASL)
Location: You go back in direction of the parking place. You can go through the woods past the Berghof site or go around Hotel zum Türken. When you cross the open field of the SS Kaserne and Kindergarten you get to the busstop of the Kehlsteinhaus.
Today: The Kehlsteinhaus is still there. Buses only go in spring and summer.
On top of the mountain the Kehlstein is the Kehlsteinhouse or the Eagle’s Nest. You can get there only by bus. The bus takes you to a large door with a tunnel of 130 meters in the mountain behind it . A lift takes you up 120 meters to the Kehlsteinhaus.

The large hall of the Kehlsteinhaus, in Hitlers days

The same hall and the fireplace
(pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun
at the Kehlsteinhaus

Hitler visits the Eagles Nest. Below, on the left he’s together with the French ambassador Francois Poncet on October 18, 1938. The picture below, on the right side shows him with Magda Goebbels and Eva Braun.

The wedding of Gretl Braun took place at the Kehlsteinhaus.

American soldiers at the Eagles Nest

The lift had a couch in the past.The picture in the centre shows that the couch has gone today (picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009).

Above: A tunnel of 130 meters led to the lift. Centre: The tunnel hasn’t changed much over the years.(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

The lift doors at the Kehlsteinhaus. (picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009).

Left: The entrance to the tunnel that leads to the lift of the Kehlsteinhaus.
(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009)
Above: German soldiers guard the tunnel.
Right: An old coloured picture of the entrance and the mountain.

The Kehlsteinhaus
(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

Satellite image
(picture: Google Earth)

The first plans for the Kehlsteinhaus are from 1936. Martin Bormann supervised the project. The building had to be ready before the 50th anniversary of Hitler, on 20 April 1939. Money didn’t seem to matter. The work was pretty risky due to the weather conditions, the 7 days a week 24 hours shifts and of course the risks that had to be taken. Only the best workers were selected for this project. Most of them had experience building the ‘Grossglocknerstrasse’ in Austria. The project leader was an Austrian engineer called Hans Haupner. Together with the two building companies Polensky & Zöllner and Sager & Woerner, he was responsible for the technical solutions. Under supervision of Fritz Todt, who was responsible for the planning of the project, it had to be a sustainable project. He decided that no trees were to be cut during the project. In the summer of 1938 the building and the ten kilometer road were finished. Total cost: about 30 million Reichsmark.

Hitler didn’t visit the Kehlsteinhaus as often as is adopted. He hated heights and they say the lift wasn’t his thing either. The Kehlsteinhaus should not be confused with the teahouse Hitler visited during his daily walk on the Obersalzberg, because this teahouse was the one on the Mooslahnerkopf. Imagine Hitler doing his daily walk all the way up to the Kehlsteinhaus…

The official name of the building was D-house: Diplomats-house. It had to be a place where the visitors were impressed by the used techniques, the beautiful views and the impressive quietness of a country at war. After the war the Oberzalsberg was bombed, but the Kehlsteinhaus was saved.