Kehlsteinhaus ("Eagle's Nest"). Berchtesgaden - royal lake - Hitler's eagle's nest
Dens of tyrants. Multimillion-dollar projects that combine the luxury of decoration and the horror in the air before the owners of these places. Now many of these architectural monuments, which are the fruit of the megalomania of odious figures, are open to the public. Tito's nuclear bunker, Stalin's dacha, Mussolini's villa have all become tourist attractions.
Another question is whether visiting places associated with ruthless dictators will be a useful history lesson? Or is it a bad omen to remember those who fell victim to brutal regimes? Perhaps it will be simply unpleasant for you to be photographed where, for example, the dark deeds of the Third Reich were performed. However, the preservation of these sites serves as an important reminder of historical atrocities.
Therefore, if you definitely decide that you need it, you can easily get to these lairs ...
Adolf Gitler: " Eagle Nest”, Bavaria
This mountain resort near the town of Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps was the original place where Hitler could meet high-ranking guests.
The easiest way to get to this cottage is with an elevator that takes you up a 124-meter shaft cut into the mountain.
On the same mountain was the Berghof Nazi reserve command base, destroyed by Allied bombing.
However, the "Eagle's Nest" (or Kehlsteinhaus, as it sounds in German) has been preserved and is open to tourists. Now located there information Center and a chic restaurant. Recently, $22.5 million was spent on its renovation.
Joseph Stalin: dacha, Sochi
On the outskirts Black Sea resort Sochi, the host of the 2014 Olympics, is known to all locals as the dacha of Joseph Stalin.
This complex, with palm trees imported from California and a sniper pillbox, was Stalin's favorite place, where he often left Moscow.
Now it's a small museum where a mannequin of the Soviet leader can be found sitting at an old table.
Benito Mussolini: Villa Torlonia, Rome
The neoclassical Villa Torlonia was the residence of Benito Mussolini between 1925 and 1943.
The Italian dictator installed a tennis court and a cinema here. Now the house is a museum and archive, and in the basement, films from the time of Mussolini are shown to visitors.
Francisco Franco: Royal Palace El Pard, Madrid
The Spanish equivalent of Villa Torlonia is the royal palace of El Pard, from where General Francisco Franco ruled with an iron fist.
Now the head of state sometimes rests in this refuge in the hills. However, when there are no dignitaries there, the palace can be visited as part of an excursion.
Napoleon Bonaparte: Chateau de Fontainebleau, France
In one of the most selfish moments of his life, Napoleon decided to spend a fortune on the renovation of the shabby Château de Fontainebleau - he really wanted to get this property 55 km from the center of Paris.
You can visit the Fontainebleau Palace with a guided tour - up to a thousand people at a time. You can walk around the palace and admire the interior decoration preserved from the Napoleonic era.
Josip Broz Tito: D-0 ARK facility, Bosnia
The former Yugoslav leader Tito's bunker was built as a military operations center and a refuge for the president and his family in the event of a nuclear war.
labyrinths underground tunnels, the conference rooms and housing complexes of the D-0 ARK facility were kept secret until the 1990s. Now, in just one summer, it has turned into an art project and dozens of art installations have filled the gloomy corridors.
King Zogu: house "St. Katharine's Parmoor, England
After King Zoga was expelled from Albania in 1939, he fled to the UK and lived at the Ritz Hotel in London before moving to this house in Buckinghamshire.
There is little regal grandeur here - only modest rooms and chickens running around the garden. You can visit the lair of the former tyrant on weekends.
Adolf Hitler: Wolf's Lair, Poland
The Nazis built the "Wolf's Lair" away from civilization, in the forests of northeastern Poland.
Hitler spent almost three years here and narrowly escaped death at the hands of Claus von Stauffenberg, who tried to blow up the dictator with a smuggled bomb. Unfortunately, Hitler was saved from the explosion by a solid oak table - he escaped with only a slight concussion, although the explosion killed 4 people and injured 17 more.
Now in one of the complexes of the lair there is a hotel where you can rent a room for $38.
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Hitler's tea house "Eagle's Nest" (Germany) - description, history, location. The exact address, phone, website. Reviews of tourists, photos and videos.
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When Adolf Hitler turned 50, the National Socialist Workers' Party gave him summer residence in the Austrian Alps, erected by order of Martin Bormann especially for this occasion in a little more than a year. The owner called it "Tea House" (Kelsteinhaus), and the Americans who captured this area after the war came up with another name - "Eagle's Nest" - because of its location high in the mountains.
The tea house was not damaged during the bombing of British aircraft, the Americans placed their military headquarters in it. When the building was handed over to the Bavarian government, they planned to demolish it, but changed their minds, and it still stands in the Alps.
What to see
Simultaneously with the residence, a road was being built to it - a mountain "serpentine" with a total length of 6.5 km, rising through 5 tunnels to a height of 700 m. It ends with a parking area for cars. From here begins a pedestrian tunnel, 124 m long, leading to a high-speed elevator.
The elevator looks unexpectedly luxurious: it is decorated with mirrors, leather and bronze.
The "Eagle's Nest" has not changed much; the atmosphere of Bavaria in the middle of the 20th century is well felt here. The museum was not opened here, all Nazi paraphernalia was removed, Hitler's office is used as a pantry. Eva Braun was fond of photography, her pictures, along with other historical shots, are presented on the stands. They are hung in a small corridor with arches through which the mountains and Lake Königssee are visible.
In the main hall of the complex there is a restaurant serving traditional Bavarian cuisine and local beer; there are tables open sky. In the hall, a red marble fireplace, presented to the Fuhrer Mussolini, has been preserved. There is also a small gift shop here. From the residence you can walk higher into the mountains, from where even more picturesque views open up.
Practical information
Address: Berchtesgaden, Salzbergstrasse 45. Website.
From Berchtesgaden, the Obersalzberg road leads to the house, along it you need to get to the site, focusing on the Kehlstein signs. RVO Line 838 buses also come here. Further along the mountain "serpentine" you can only go on special buses to the tunnel and the elevator.
The "Eagle's Nest" is open from May to October, it is better to check the exact dates on the website, as they change every year. The bus and elevator depart every 25 minutes from 8:30 to 16:00 and return until 16:50. The ticket price, including bus and elevator travel in both directions, is EUR 16.10 for adults and EUR 9.30 for children under 14 years of age. Prices on the page are for October 2018.
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The Bavarian municipality of Berchtesgaden is famous for its amazingly beautiful lake Königssee, located in a gorge among the mountains in the Alps. It is especially picturesque in autumn, among yellow and red trees. In the same places you can see salt mines, where salt was mined for more than 500 years, and today it is a fascinating, underground attraction. And it is also famous for its Mount Kehlstein, which offers a wonderful view of the entire commune, the Alps and the surrounding area at a distance of up to two hundred kilometers. They say that in good weather from this mountain you can also see Salzburg, which is only thirty kilometers from here, but that's what they say... I don't know how true it is...
It was this mountain that Martin Bormann chose to make a gift for the fiftieth anniversary of the Fuhrer ...
Eagle's Nest, Kehlstein, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany, 07/03/2011
A small, cozy tea house, which later became one of Hitler's residences. Its construction began in 1937 at the initiative of Bormann with the laying of a road, about 6.5 km long and passing through five tunnels. The road ends with a platform in front of a rock, in which the sixth tunnel, 124 m long, was pierced with the help of explosions, leading to an elevator decorated with bronze polished to a golden sheen. In forty-one seconds, the elevator rises to a height of 124 meters and goes straight to the tea house.
All work on the construction and laying of the road was completed within thirteen months. In the summer of 1938, the future residence of Hitler was ready for operation.
In April 1945, during a massive British air raid on the area, the tea house survived. Not a single bomb hit his territory. The English pilots simply did not see anything serious in this "cottage".
The second time the Eagle's Nest survived in 1951, when it was transferred by the American occupation authorities to Bavaria. The Bavarian government decided to demolish the house so that fans of the Fuhrer would not come here. However, the authorities of the Berchtesgaden district temporarily blocked this decision and, after negotiations, it was decided to blow up only the ruins of Hitler's bunker, located below ...
Today Eagle's Nest is a chic restaurant. Just a restaurant, no museums. IN bad weather guests can dine inside the house, in sunny days you can drink beer sitting on the outdoor terrace.
It may even be on this terrace that Hitler hosted the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in the autumn of 1937. I came here to once again touch the history of WWII, and just walk around the Bavarian Alps.
In vain, there is also something to see. True, the path there is not too wide, it’s not painfully comfortable for walking, and holding hands doesn’t look like there ... It’s comfortable for loners like me ...
Here, for example, is a view of the Royal Lake (Königssee), but it practically does not differ from what can be seen near the cross.
Some stairs in the rocks... I wonder if there was such a thing in those distant forties? It's really not that easy to get through these paths ...
closer to mountain range a low stone fence, the purpose and history of which remained unclear to me ... The path goes further, but it goes down, and the prospect of wandering here until dark did not please me at all and I turned back.
A few more views ... Somewhere down there behind the cliff is the village of Berchtesgaden
Pointers suggest which way to return and the distance to the place in time. Without them, if you want to diversify the route and not walk the same road twice, it’s not so easy to figure it out ... It’s painfully ambiguous here. All the time you run the risk of running into some sort of rock...
Exactly twenty minutes later, as indicated, I again go out to the Eagle's Nest. This photo shows the ledge on which the house nestled.
Immediately after the Nest, the path leads to the very parking lot from which the 124-meter tunnel to the elevator begins, and I go down to the remains of Hitler's bunker until it starts to rain ... But more on that next time ...
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In the Alpine valley of Berchtesgaden in Obersalberg near the border with Austria, from 1936 to 1945, the second most important Bavarian Alpine residence of the Third Reich was located.Berghof
- the southern headquarters of the Fuhrer, one of his ten main headquarters in Europe, in which he was personally presentAdolf Gitler
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Here, against the backdrop of amazing alpine landscapes, plans were hatched for world domination, the expansion of the living space of the German nation, the occupation of Czechoslovakia and the attack on Poland. On August 20, 1939, Hitler telegraphed from the Berghof Joseph Stalin text of the non-aggression pact.
Many European leaders, from prime ministers to royal persons, were noted here, which they drank "with a hospitable friend Adolf" not only tea and coffee.
The history of the Berghof residence begins in 1928, when Hitler begins filming in the Alpine resort town chalet (view of the hotel) Haus Wachenfeld, which he bought in 1933 from the owners with the money received as a fee for Mein Kamph. The hotel was rebuilt and renamed the Berghof. Over time, prominent Hitler's party lords, including Goering and Bormann, began to settle here. Some services of the Reich Chancellery are also located in the Berghof.
Old photograph of the Berghof residence 
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On April 20, 1939, on the Führer's 50th birthday, the Party Genosse, on behalf of the National Socialist Workers' Party, presented him with the Kehlsteinhaus Tea House. The construction was supervised by Martin Bormann. The house is located on the top of the Kehlstein mountain (1834 meters). A 120-meter tunnel has been cut through the rock, from where 134 meters are overcome on a special elevator.
We must pay tribute to Hitler's party comrades, the choice of location for the tea house turned out to be ideal. The Fuhrer from the height of the mountain from the balcony of the tea house could not only admire the Alpine landscapes on one side, but in good weather, on the other side, Hitler's small homeland in Austria was visible. Therefore, here at the height it was possible to comfortably dream of world power and indulge in nostalgia for childhood.
Great Hall at the Berghof residence, 1936 
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New Year's celebration in Great Hall Berghof residences. Visiting Hitler prominent figures of the Third Reich with their spouses 
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During a massive British air raid on April 25, 1945 on the Obersalzberg area, the Tea House was not damaged. After the end of the war, the former headquarters of the Fuhrer was occupied by American troops. From the Americans came the name of the house on the rock - "Eagle's Nest", which housed the military headquarters. In 1951, the Eagle's Nest was handed over to the Bavarian government, which decided to demolish it. However, the Berchstegaden district authorities blocked this decision and turned the "Eagle's Nest" into a tourist site.
The skeleton of the Berghof stood until 1952, when the Bavarian government decided to destroy Hitler's house so that it would not become a place of worship for neo-Nazis. And he did not recall the friendly "tea parties" of European leaders with "friend Hitler." 
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View from the Berghof (or the Eagle's Nest?) to the Alpine valley
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I have not been to the Eagle's Nest, but you can say I saw it. During his stay in the Austrian Salzburg, he visited one of the largest medieval fortresses Europe Hohensalzburg to the magical music of Mozart, which filled the neighborhood from the adjacent town square. And against this romantic background, one of local residents suggested that I look out of the telescope at a certain point. To the question "What is it?" followed by the answer: "Berhof", Hitler's headquarters, is about 10 km from Salzburg. By the way, from the fortress wall you can also see the area where the leader of the Third Reich was born (near the town of Braunau an der Inn in Upper Austria).
Salzburg is located near the German border. And in order to get to the suburban hotel where I stayed, it was necessary to use the road junction on the autobahn, which is already in Germany. This, I understand European integration in action!
I didn’t get a clear photo of the Alpine environs of Salzburg, so I offer a view of Salzburg and its environs from the Eagle’s Nest. At the top right, Salzburg and the fortress are visible in the haze, and on the horizon - the small homeland of Adolf Hitler.
A small house was built. Its construction has become one of the most expensive and large-scale projects in the region. Tea house at the top of the mountain extraordinary landscapes was a gift to Adolf Hitler on his 50th birthday.
The house itself is quite ordinary, but the road, 6 kilometers long, to the top of the mountain was cut through the rocks in 13 months, and the work was carried out even in winter. This is an incredible time frame for such a project, which was intended to show the superiority of the German nation.
After World War II, the territory of the Berchtesgaden district, where the Kehlsteinhaus is located, was occupied by the Americans. They gave the house the nickname "Eagle's Nest". In 1951, it was handed over to the Bavarian authorities, who decided to demolish it. However, Berchtesgaden district authorities temporarily blocked this decision. After negotiations, it was decided to blow up only the ruins of buildings belonging to the leaders of the Third Reich, and the Eagle's Nest, fortunately, survived.
The Eagle's Nest is open from mid-May to mid-October, check the dates on the official website.
visiting this wonderful place associated with some difficulties, so it is better to prepare in advance. So, you can get to the top only on special tourist buses with enhanced brakes. Buses leave from Dokumentation Obersalzberg (last at 16:30). This is such a tourist centre where you will buy tickets and wait for your bus. From railway station a regular bus number 838 goes there to Berchstegaden about once an hour (schedule). You can also take a taxi (about 10 euros).
Next, go straight to the ticket office. Above them will burn the time for which you can buy a ticket. Let's say right away that this place is extremely popular among tourists, so after buying tickets we had to wait for our bus for about an hour and a half in local restaurant.
Get on the bus and go to a special area for tourists. Do not yawn there, firstly, immediately register for the return flight in the window (decide for yourself how much time you need; if there are a lot of people, then at least one and a half hours) and then go into the tunnel 124 meters long.
The tunnel will lead you to an elevator finished in bronze. And can lead to a huge queue waiting for this elevator. The elevator will take you upstairs to the house itself.
The top of the cliff is quite large, and if you move a little to the side, then there are not so many people and you can walk freely. There is a small restaurant in the house.
How to get there: By regional train München - Freilassing - Berchtesgaden, which takes about 3 hours and 20 minutes. Use bahn.de. It takes 50 minutes to get from Salzburg by bus number 840/841 to Berchtesgaden, four-hour excursions are sold, but it is better to go on your own.
