Göring's personal adjutant Gen. Karl Bodenschatz and staff had living quarters and offices in an adjutancy house near Landhaus Göring. The house is today a private residence.  (Hartmann, "Verwandlung")

Architect Albert Speer, who became Minister of Armaments, was the fourth member of the Nazi hierarchy who had a house on the Obersalzberg. Below his house was a spacious architectural studio, built to Speer's design in 1939. The Armed Forces Recreation Center used this building as "Evergreen Lodge" until 1995, adding a new doorway and terrace at the corner. It stood vacant until 2002, but has recently been used as an office by the Gewerbegrund company that built the hotel near the site of Landhaus Göring.  (Hartmann, "Verwandlung;" my thanks to Uwe Bruegge for sending me the update on its current occupants)

Speer's studio, then and now.  (period photo from Dokumentation Obersalzberg)

Back side of Speer's studio building.

Speer's house on the Obersalzberg (above his studio).
The house is today private property.

To supply Hitler's vegetarian diet, Bormann had a greenhouse built, between his own house and Hintereck. The building at the side (seen head-on in the view on the right) was a house for growing mushrooms. This building took a direct bomb hit in April 1945 and its ruins were completely removed (below right). Only the concrete foundations of the greenhouse remain today, near the entrance to the InterContinental Hotel.  (U.S. National Archives)

GIs inspect the greenhouse (Gewächshaus) in 1945. About 1943 Bormann had a second tier added - compare this photo to the earlier views above. The observation tower for the anti-aircraft defense and communications center can be seen above and behind the greenhouse ruins (note - this object was removed in 2004, during construction of the InterContinental Hotel).  (U.S. Army Signal Corps photo, National Archives RG 111SC-207259)

To supply the power needs of the Obersalzberg complex, a coal storage bunker was built in 1940. This huge stone and concrete edifice could hold 10,000 cubic meters - over 3500 tons - of coal. (left - Hartmann - "Verwandlung;" right - Rhomberg-Schuster - "Historische Blitzlichter")

Vegetation prevents an exact comparison photo today. The Koksbunker remains substantially as it did in 1945. This front view was taken in 1981. Some of the original wooden doors remain.

Vegetation continues to encroach on the site, and refuse has been piled in front of some of the doors. This view was taken in May 2005. 

Interior of one of the coal supply rooms. Coal trucks dumped their loads into the top of the Koksbunker, from a road higher on the hill, then smaller trucks could be supplied via the openings in the ceilings of these rooms. The Koksbunker is in surprisingly good shape, considering that it was set on fire in early May 1945 (either by retreating SS troops or by Allied soldiers), and the contents burned until October!  Note: A lot of the trash and vegetation was removed from the Koksbunker site during a clean-up on the Obersalzberg in the fall/winter of 2006 - see below.

The Koksbunker in January 2007.  (courtesy Mario Blersch (left) and Ralf Hornberger)

Although the Kindergarten building was badly damaged during the 1945 bombing and the ruins were razed along with those of the SS Kaserne in 1951-52, a large part of the foundation was visible for many years afterwards, just beside the road leading to the Hintereck parking area, uphill from the Türken (these ruins were removed in 2001-2002). In both of these views, the Kehlsteinhaus is just visible on the mountain behind.  (Rupert Prohme, "History of 30th Infantry Regiment World War II," Washington, Infantry Journal Press, 1947)

The modern photo shows the open basement of the Kindergarten during the removal of the ruins in the summer of 2001. (Dokumentation Obersalzberg)

The Filmarchiv building was also damaged in the 1945 bombing, and the foundation ruins were removed in the summer of 2001. During this excavation, several previously uncharted tunnels were uncovered, including one that had been inaccessible since 1945. This tunnel yielded munitions boxes, hand grenades, a panzerfaust, jackboots, and period wine bottles, some still with their contents preserved. The modern view shows the exposed basement in May 2001. The photo on the left, taken ca. 1950 by ex-Nazi photographer Ernst Baumann, shows the ruins of the Filmarchiv at far left, with the ruins of the Kindergarten in the center and the rebuilt Hotel Zum Türken on the right. The ruins of the Berghof can be seen beyond the Türken (compare to Baumann's early 1940s photo above).  (author's collection)

A curved stone staircase led down into access tunnels below the Filmarchiv basement. (These basement ruins are all filled in now.)

Various guardhouses for the SS-Leibstandarte were erected around the inner Obersalzberg area. The main SS guardhouse was on the road just below the Berghof. This was an elaborate affair spanning the road, with a wooden gate. Today, the stone foundation can be seen to the left of the road.  (Florentine Hamm, "Obersalzberg, Wanderungen zwischen Gestern und Heute," Munich, 1941 (author's collection); below - courtesy Ralf Hornberger)

A group of girls belonging to the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM - girls' Hitler Youth) wait at the guardhouse to visit their Führer (after keeping the girls waiting for five hours, Hitler came down out of the Berghof and signed autographs).  (Florentine Hamm, "Obersalzberg, Wanderungen zwischen Gestern und Heute," Munich, 1941 (author's collection)

Under new management - a group of U.S. and French soldiers at the guardhouse in early May 1945  (photo by Sgt. Gaston Eve, 501RCC, 2nd Free French Armored Division, courtesy Marc Eve)

A similar guardhouse, although not as elaborate, was located at the other end of the main Obersalzberg area, on the road leading up from Oberau to the Klaushöhe area.  (left - May 1945 reconnaissance photo; right - 101st Airborne Div. film, both in U.S. National Archives)

Period postcard views of the Theaterhalle.  (left - National Archives, RG 260-NSA-69)

Ruins of the foundation of the Theaterhalle, on the Antenberg hill.  (MapQuest Map Link)

The Antenberg hill became the site of a camp for the workers who built the Obersalzberg building complex, and the area remains the most extensive ruined site on the Obersalzberg today. In addition to the large ruins of the Theaterhalle foundation, many concrete and stone foundations remain of the wooden workers' living quarters.

Several large brick building ruins also remain on the Antenberg hill. Click here to see photos of the air-raid tunnel system built to protect the workers living in the Antenberg barracks. One of the tunnel entrances appears in the 1945 aerial photo above, just to the lower right (across the road) of the building that appears just below the center of the photo.  (photos below courtesy Ralf Hornberger)