Germany & Austria 1945
Landsberg am Lech — old town and prison
Town
GuideGermany & Austria 1945
AreaBavaria — Landsberg, Dachau & Munich
TypeTown
Time to allow45 min
LocationExact spot known
GPS48.04900, 10.87200
The story
Easy's billets from 30 April; the fortress prison above the town is where Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in 1924. The Lech weir and the painted old town are unchanged.
What to look for
Walk the Hauptplatz; look up to the prison on the hill.
Plan your visit
- Open
- Tourist office (Hauptplatz 152): May–Oct daily 9:30–12:30 & 13:30–17:00; Nov–Apr Mon–Fri 9:30–12:30 & 13:30–16:00
Checked September 2026 from official sources: landsberg.de. Things change, so check before you travel.
Nearby sites
- European Holocaust Memorial — Kaufering VII · 3 km
- Hurlach — Kaufering IV camp site · 6 km
- Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial · 51 km
- Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism · 53 km
- Bad Reichenhall · 154 km
- Nuremberg — Documentation Centre & Zeppelinfeld · 155 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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