Hotel on the Obersalzberg
Hotel built on the
spot where Hermann Goering's house once stood
The photo above shows the InterContinental
Resort Berchtesgaden, a luxury hotel which opened on February
2005 on the Obersalzberg where the homes of Hitler's deputy,
Martin Bormann, and Hermann Goering once stood on land owned
by Goering.
Ruins of Hermann Goering's
home after it was bombed
Photo Credit: Ron Clarin
The Obersalzberg, a wooded plateau about
half a mile up the Kehlstein, can be reached by tour buses which
leave regularly from the Berchtesgaden Post Office. Berchtesgaden
is a picturesque Bavarian town located 98 miles southeast of
Munich. The trip from Munich to Berchtesgaden by train takes
1 1/2 hours, and there are 12 trains leaving daily. The closest
airport is in Salzburg, Austria which is 14 miles due north of
Berchtesgaden.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, based in
Los Angeles, has criticized what they perceive as a plan to turn
what was once a Nazi enclave on the Obersalzberg into what the
Bavarian Government calls "Resort Berchtesgaden." This
area is famous because of the many state visits and diplomatic
conferences held here during the Nazi regime. The SWC believes
that this place is the center of evil and should not be used
as a resort.
Visitors who do not want to stay in this
hotel can find accommodations in Berchtesgaden, a small Bavarian town just
below the Obersaltzberg.
The InterContinental has 138 rooms and
includes an indoor-outdoor swimming pool. The modern glass and
steel building was designed to break with the past; it is vastly
different from the Bavarian architecture of Hitler's former home
on the Obersalzberg, called the Berghof, where he planned the
invasions of Poland and the Soviet Union.
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