Germany & Austria 1945
Berchtesgaden — town and the Berchtesgadener Hof site
Timeline 12 & 15
GuideGermany & Austria 1945
AreaBerchtesgaden & the Eagle's Nest
TypeTimeline 12 & 15
Time to allow30 min
LocationRight area — the exact spot is uncertain
GPS47.62630, 12.99250
The story
The 506th's headquarters hotel stood in the town, near today's Haus der Berge national-park centre, until 2006; the old station built for Hitler's guests and the market square survive. VE Day found the 506th in this area.
What to look for
Walk the Maximilianstrasse; the hotel plot is now a park.
Nearby sites
- Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden — salt mine · 2 km
- Dokumentation Obersalzberg · 4 km
- Berghof site and the Obersalzberg walk · 4 km
- Kehlsteinhaus — the Eagle's Nest · 4 km
- Königssee · 4 km
- Bad Reichenhall · 14 km
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Easy Company: Germany & Austria
A free field guide for your phone: the route, the maps and the stories built in, even with no signal. The places of the last months of the war in Europe: the Rhine, Bavaria with Landsberg, Dachau and Munich, Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's Nest, and Austria, where Easy Company ended its war at Zell am See and Kaprun.
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