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[browningautorifle]

That's the one I was talking about, we all called it the eagle's nest. No one calls it hotel anything, first time I heard that name.

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[Mark in Rochester]

No one calls it hotel anything.

I agree no one over here calls it that - more probably only in Obersalzberg

History of the Hotel zum Türken
The first building on this spot was built in 1600's and called the Türkenhäusl, or Little Turk House, believed to be named by a soldier returning from the war against the Turks (Siege of Vienna?).

Hotel zum Turken in 1936
Türken in 1936
Hotel zum Turken from below, Obersalzberg
Türken Now
The current building was started in 1911 and was more or less in it's present form in 1923 when Adolf Hitler first came to the Obersalzberg. The owner, Karl Schuster, was rather outspoken in his disapproval of the new regime and had refused to sell, as Obersalzberg residents were being pressured to do. He got into trouble after Hitler established his home in the house next door.

One evening in 1933, the SS were carousing in his lounge when Herr Schuster arrived back at the hotel. He ordered them out and made some derogatory remarks about too many SS and brownshirts being there. Martin Bormann then ordered him to sell the hotel; he refused again. Herr Schuster then spent three weeks in Dachau and "agreed" to sell.

Not to be confused with Berghof (residence).
Eagle's Nest
Kehlsteinhaus




The Kehlsteinhaus (known in English as the Eagle's Nest) is a Nazi-constructed building erected atop the summit of the Kehlstein, a rocky outcrop that rises above Obersalzberg near the southeast German town of Berchtesgaden. It was used exclusively by members of the Nazi Party for government and social meetings. It was visited on 14 documented instances by Adolf Hitler.[1][2] Today, it is open seasonally as a restaurant, beer garden, and tourist site.