Resort On Hitler's Former Hideaway Losing Money

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
May 25th 2009 at 7:01PM

The Intercontinental Resort Berchtesgaden drew controversy when it opened a few years ago. The luxury hotel is located on Germany's Obersalzberg mountain on the former site of a resort Adolf Hitler liked to use as a vacation spot. But recent German reports indicate that the Bavarian retreat isn't popular with modern Germany. The Intercontinental Hotel on the Obersalzberg mountainside near Berchtesgaden had an occupancy rate of only 53 per cent and lost 15 million euros since 2005 according to Sueddeutsche Zeitung. The report goes on to mention that state-owned bank Bayern LB which owns the hotel operating company received a 10 billion euro state bail-out but is not planning to sell the resort.

Tags: berchtesgaden, hitler, resort

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ZZ3NOVA Jun 23rd 2009 11:15AM

Of course it is failing, they have tried to ignore the local color and flavor which is what brought the place to popularity before Hitler, it is too much glass and modern look. The best place to stay there would be the Gasthaus Zum Turken, an original alpine retreat, the kind of place that made the area so popular to begin with. There is no need to try to ignore or bury the history of the area, it is not a shrine to the nazi's it is just a wonderful and magical mountain area that will captivate you if you spend time there. The new hotel is ugly and out of place there, too bad they wasted the money to build it as it will never be accepted by the locals let alone international tourists who would come there to get away from such modern hotels.