Germany & Austria 1945
Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden — salt mine
Berchtesgaden
GuideGermany & Austria 1945
AreaBerchtesgaden & the Eagle's Nest
TypeBerchtesgaden
Time to allow1 h 30 min
LocationExact spot known
GPS47.63797, 13.01800
The story
The salt mine 506th men toured in May 1945 as tourists. Göring's looted art was found in Obersalzberg shelters, trains and regional caches; the celebrated salt-mine art store was Altaussee in Austria, not this mine.
What to look for
Miners' slide and the underground lake.
Plan your visit
Daily; check salzbergwerk.de.
Nearby sites
- Berghof site and the Obersalzberg walk · 2 km
- Dokumentation Obersalzberg · 2 km
- Berchtesgaden — town and the Berchtesgadener Hof site · 2 km
- Kehlsteinhaus — the Eagle's Nest · 3 km
- Königssee · 6 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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