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The only hotels in town with a general in the name would be US Army hotels. Yes, one of them was torn down two years ago, but one is still standing (though unused). The General Patton Hotel is still standing, but it's empty.
- Hi daynacrow, I'm afraid that is just not enough information -- there are mountains on three sides of Garmisch, so your inn could have been almost...
- Thank you for your comments. I have looked at every existing hotel photo on trip advisor. I have looked at maps. I was 16 at the time and my aunt a...
- Do you remember where you walked to? Any restaurants in the neighborhood? s
- Also, Trip Advisor only has a percentage of all the inns and apartments that are available in Garmisch. To see ALL of them, look at http://www.gapa...
- No restaurants. I only remember driving down a main street and stopping to watch figure skaters at an (Olympic?) ice rink, practicing their routines.
- I tried your link for all hotels and inns and did not recognize any, despite viewing all photos inside each hotel. I found one comment on the histo...
- Again, the mountains are on three sides of Garmisch -- the Wank on the northeast, the Kreuzeck and Alpspitze on the south, and the Kramer on the no...
- No recollection of RR tracks. Uncle finally thinks he remembers the hotel was named for a general or some military man and that perhaps the hotel w...
- Hi again, The only hotels in town with a general in the name would be US Army hotels. Yes, one of them was torn down two years ago, but one is stil...
- ok, I stand corrected. One US Army hotel was town down two years ago, but I can't remember the name of it. The General Abrams Hotel building is sti...
In April 1956, the Garmisch Recreation Area included the new Patton, von Steuben, Green Arrow and Sheridan Plaza Hotels. The Americans still controlled the Partenkirchenerhof, Bahnhof, Roter Hahn and Riessersee Hotels, and rented the Eibsee Hotel.
Nov 8, 2010 · American soldiers who served in Europe knew it as the Patton Hotel. All that stands today is an empty shell. Garmisch, about an hour south of Munich (Munchen with an umlaut), was taken over as very much a part of the United States during the Cold War. The Patton Hotel, opened in 1953, was the gem.
Aug 24, 2014 · The getaway was named Garmisch, USA in 1956, after a resort town in Bavaria. Buildings were in need of major TLC by 1988, after the resort was shuttered for years.
ATLAS Posthotel. In the middle of Garmisch-Partenkirchen the ATLAS Posthotel stands proudly on the foundation walls since 1512 A.D. and was named first as a tavern during the Thirty Years War. A small tavern originally stood on the site of the present day reception.
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Hans Huber was a well known photographer in the Garmsich area and took many photos of Garmisch (including many of the hotels used by AFRC) in the early to mid-1900s.
