Upper Bavaria
Berchtesgadener Land
Berchtesgaden

Kehlstein

The Kehlstein is a 1,881 m subpeak of the massif, a 2,522 m mountain in the . The rocky promontory is located west of the Hoher Göll main summit, high above the mountain retreat near .
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Wikipedia
Photo: DennisPeeters, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Eagle’s Nest and Berghof.

Restaurant
Photo: Milseburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Kehlsteinhaus is a building situated atop the Kehlstein, a rocky promontory above near , 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.

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The was Adolf Hitler's holiday home in the of the near , , Germany. Other than the , his headquarters in East Prussia for the invasion of the Soviet Union, he spent more time here than anywhere else during his time as the Führer of Nazi Germany.

Peak
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The is a 2,522 m mountain in the . It is the highest peak of the Göll massif, which straddles the border between the state of and the state of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Obersalzberg and Schönau am Königssee.

Locality
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is a mountainside retreat situated above the market town of in , . Located about 120 kilometres south-east of , close to the border with , it is best known as the site of Adolf Hitler's former mountain residence, the , and of the mountaintop , popularly known in the English-speaking world as the "Eagle's Nest".

Village
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is a municipality in the district of in the state of . It is located at the northern end of the lake.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of in in . is situated 8 km northwest of Kehlstein.

Kehlstein

Latitude
47.60969° or 47° 36′ 35″ north
Longitude
13.04596° or 13° 2′ 45″ east
Elevation
1,834 metres (6,017 feet)
Open location code
8FVMJ25W+V9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2272725401
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
2891928
Wiki­data ID
Q2511014
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Polish—“Kehlstein” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Kehlstein”
  • Cebuano: “Kehlstein”
  • Chinese: “鹰巢”
  • Danish: “Kehlstein”
  • Dutch: “Kehlstein”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كيهلستين”
  • French: “Kehlstein”
  • German: “Kehlstein”
  • Hungarian: “Kehlstein”
  • Ladin: “Kehlstein”
  • Polish: “Kehlstein”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kehlstein”. Photo: DennisPeeters, Public domain.