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Kehlsteinhaus
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The '''''' (Eagle's Nest) is a building situated atop the Kehlstein, a rocky promontory above Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden, in southeastern Germany. Completed in 1938, it was commissioned by the Nazi Party for official and social functions and was visited by Adolf Hitler on at least fourteen documented occasions.
Key facts
- Building.name
- Eagle's Nest
- Building.native_name
- Kehlsteinhaus
- Building.native_name_lang
- de
- Building.status
- Complete
- Building.image
- Erelio lizdas.jpg
- Building.image_size
- 325px
- Building.caption
- The Kehlsteinhaus in 2017
- Building.location
- Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden, Germany
- Building.completion_date
- 1938
- Building.inauguration_date
- April 20, 1939
- Building.building_type
- Chalet
- Building.website
- kehlsteinhaus.de/en
- Building.pushpin_map
- Germany Bavaria#Germany
- Building.map_caption
- Location in Bavaria, Germany
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Allied capture
- Today
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- References
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The '''''' (Eagle's Nest) is a building situated atop the Kehlstein, a rocky promontory above Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden, in southeastern Germany. Completed in 1938, it was commissioned by the Nazi Party for official and social functions and was visited by Adolf Hitler on at least fourteen documented occasions.
Today, the Kehlsteinhaus operates seasonally as a restaurant, beer garden, and tourist destination.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kehlsteinhaus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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