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Mar 28, 2018 · Travelers on the 13-day trip will explore by motorcoach and stay in four- and five-star hotels—including Austria’s Grand Hotel Zell am See, where Easy Company was stationed toward the end of the war. Admission fees, tours, gratuities, and most meals are included in the $6,495 double occupancy price.
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May 5, 2023 · Now I know very well that the real Easy Company has never been in Switzerland, but the beautiful mountain scenery and picturesque towns we see in Episode 10 “Points” of the mini-series which depict Zell Am See in Austria and surroundings are actually landscapes in Switzerland!
Jun 18, 2023 · Grand Hotel—Zell Am See, Austria. At the end of the war, Grand Hotel Zell am See was occupied by US forces for 10 years, and is best known as the hotel where the Band of Brothers spent time—and is a rewarding finish to your pilgrimage honoring Easy Company.
- 5 Hatfield Aerodrome
- 4 North Weald Airfield
- 3 Hambleden
- 2 Home County Forests
- 1 Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
A Former British Aerospace Factory That Occupied Hertfordshire
The vast majority of Band of Brothers was filmed in Hatfield Aerodrome, a former British Aerospace factory that occupied a vast swath of land in the county of Hertfordshire, England. Spielberg and Hanks had previously used the location to shoot parts of Saving Private Ryan. The large open field was used to represent twelve different European towns, including Bastogne in Belgium, Eindhoven in The Netherlands and Carentan in France. The production team even constructed a fake forest to simulate...
The Planes Taking Off In North Weald Airfield Are CGI
Ironically, the D-Day airfield take-off scenes that punctuate Band of Brothers’ first episode could not be filmed at the Hatfield airfield. To capture the beginning of Easy Company’s journey into Normandy, the production used North Weald Airfield in the neighboring county of Essex. Fittingly, North Weald was an actual tactical location used by British planes in World War 2. However, the planes seen taking off from the airfield at the episode’s end are CGI.
Hambleden Was Used As A Replacement For Aldbourne
The vast majority of the training sequences from Band of Brothers episode one were shot in the aerodrome. However, a real village, Hambleden, was used for the scenes shot in the village of Aldbourne. Hambleden is in Buckinghamshire, another county neighboring Hertfordshire. The picturesque town also features in the 1968 British film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
The Location Was Also Used For Gladiator, Children of Men, and War Horse
Additional scenes of Band of Brothers had to be filmed in real forests, although the filmmakers did not stray far from Hertfordshire, shooting in two forests in the home counties. Surrey’s Bourne Woods was used for some of the training exercise scenes in episode one. Bourne Woods has served as a filming location for numerous high-profile films, including Gladiator, Children of Men and another Steven Spielberg project, War Horse. Ashdown Forest of East Sussex was used for a sequence in episode...
The Location Was Used For Scenes Set In Austria & Germany
For the scenes set in Austria and Germany, the Band of Brothers cast and crew went to the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland and the nearby hotel Giessbach. The Bernese area features prominently in Band of Brothers’ final episode, “Points.” Parts of the Bernese Grimsel Pass were used for the site of Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest. The Austrian town of Zell am See is represented by the Swiss village of Brienz and the grand hotel at which the main characters stay for episode 10 is, in reality, the hotel Gi...
Jun 12, 2006 · Finally we moved on to Zell am See and Kaprun, where Easy secured prisoners and relaxed, and from where, eventually, the Band of Brothers began disbanding, going their separate ways home. Our last dinner of the tour was to be held in the Kehlsteinhaus, the Eagle’s Nest, the mountaintop retreat built for Hitler above Berchtesgaden as a 50th ...
