The Eagle’s Nest, also known as the Kehlsteinhaus (German: House on the Kehlstein) is an Alpine hut in Germany, located in the Obersalzberg in the Bavarian Alps of Berchtesgaden about twenty kilometers from the Austrian city of Salzburg.
Originally the building was part of the property of the deceased Berghof, known to have been the private residence of Adolf Hitler below and with which he is often mistakenly identified. Completed in August 1938 in little more than a year by a team of about two thousand people and cost about 30 million Reichsmark, it was offered as a gift to Hitler for his fiftieth birthday, but the Führer made very little use of the structure, except for some diplomatic meetings, preferring to stay at the nearby Berghof.
