Germany & Austria 1945
Kehlsteinhaus — the Eagle's Nest
Site
The story
The tea-house at 1,834 m: the brass lift, the marble fireplace, the terrace traditionally identified as the setting of the famous Easy Company photograph (the exact location is disputed). Special buses from the Obersalzberg car park; no private cars.
What to look for
Stand on the terrace and turn to the Watzmann — same view, same railing.
Plan your visit
- Open
- Season early/mid May to mid/late Oct (weather). To 30 Sep: buses up 08:30–16:00, last down 16:50; from 1 Oct: 08:55–16:00, last down 15:35
- Price
- €34.70 adults return bus (online); children 6–14 €17.20
- Booking
- Online booking advised; arrive 30 min before booked bus
- Parking
- Paid car park at Salzbergstraße 45 (Obersalzberg)
- Access
- Low-floor buses with wheelchair spaces; paved tunnel and lift to the house; summit cross not accessible
Checked September 2026 from official sources: berchtesgaden.de, imxplatform-cust-bb.fsn1.your-objectstorage.com. Things change, so check before you travel.
Nearby sites
- Dokumentation Obersalzberg · 2 km
- Berghof site and the Obersalzberg walk · 2 km
- Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden — salt mine · 3 km
- Berchtesgaden — town and the Berchtesgadener Hof site · 4 km
- Königssee · 5 km
- Bad Reichenhall · 18 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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