If you’ve ever visited, the trip up the mountain to get to it (including the tunnel+lift) is more memorable than the building atop the mountain.
Those hairpin turns are taken by buses but fire engines might be even more hair raising (perhaps they had practice).
— ‘Built by the Nazis and formally inaugurated by Hitler on his birthday in 1939, the Eagle’s Nest has been preserved as a monument to “the insanity of the regime”, according to its website.
It is only accessible via a road cut into the mountain through previously impassable terrain. Nazis would enter a tunnel and take a 124-metre brass lift buried in the mountain to get inside the building.
Authorities were alerted to the fire when a smoke detector triggered a fire alarm at about 9.15pm, police said. When firefighters arrived on the scene at about 9.50pm, the entire building was engulfed in flames.’
the GuardianSuspect arrested over fire at Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ retreat in BavariaAbout 200 firefighters deployed to tackle blaze at former Nazi mountain retreat in remote part of southern Germany