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As late as June 1952, the Garmisch Recreation Area still included 12 hotels in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Grainau, and on both the Kreuzeck and Zugspitz, as well as the golf course and numerous ski slopes. In June 1952, the rate for soldiers at the US hotels was $.75 per day; officers paid $1.50 per day.
Entrance to Hotel Eibsee, 1950s ; The terrace and lake from a balcony at Hotel Eibsee, early 1950s ; Garmisch Bahnhof (train station), around 1948 (Webmaster's collection) Taxi stand at the Garmisch Bahnhof, around 1948 (Webmaster's collection) The Garmisch Bahnhof area, January 1952 (Webmaster's collection)
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USAREUR Partial Photos - Garmisch. If you have corrections or additional information, stories and photos, please contact the webmaster. The Riessersee Hotel is located on the Riessersee - about 3 km south of Garmisch. The hotel was requisitioned by US Forces in 1945 and used as a hotel for officers, civilians and their families until 1952 when ...
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 history of Garmisch-Partenkirschen which said: "Early mornings and late afternoons in pleasant weather often find local traffic stopped while the dairy cows are herded to and from the nearby mountain meadows."
- 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.
- 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...
Sep 19, 2019 · It opened in 1953 and was returned to the German Government in 2004. A German building contractor Ibrahim Kavun, bought the 6,115 square meter (65,821 square feet) complex in July 2014 for 1.72 million euros ($1,918,823.40 USD 2019 rate) and has rented it to the Garmisch municipality who have been using the hotel to house foreign refugees.
Garmisch, 1952 (Source: Webmaster's collection) The Post Hotel: this historic hotel located on the Marktplatz in Garmisch was requisitioned by the US Army in April 1945 and was used as an officer hotel for members of Allied forces on leave in Garmisch.
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. Ask any GI who stayed there.
