Rest house on the Chiemsee

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The Rasthaus am Chiemsee was the first large rest area on the Reichsautobahn . It is located on the A 8 between Munich and Salzburg in Bernau ( Rosenheim district ), directly on the south bank of the Chiemsee . The rest house was opened on August 27, 1937 during the Nazi era with 520 seats. The building was completed in 1942, but was then only used as a hospital . The Munich architect Fritz Norkauer based himself on the large Chiemgau courtyards with their gently sloping gable roofs. Fritz Todt personally supervised the construction. The rest area was so popular as a place for excursions that it had to be temporarily closed in the summer of 1939 due to overcrowding. The dining room was designed for 350 people, the terrace of the café for 1,300 guests and the outdoor pool for 1,450 people.

construction

Return from Obersalzberg on September 15, 1938:
Ambassador to London Herbert von Dirksen (left), Neville Chamberlain and Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in front of the rest house on Chiemsee

In one year, 800 workers built the rest area on the lake shore. The building site was considered difficult. For the main construction alone, reinforced concrete piles up to 14 meters long were set in the alluvial land in 1436. The 250-meter-long structure is also in watertight concrete tubs so that it is not flooded in spring floods. Its three wings housed a restaurant, bathing establishment and a hotel with 53 rooms. The building technology was modern, the radio speakers sat behind the wall lights, the exhaust air slots in the ceilings and the radiators in the window niches were ornamentally clad. There was a pier for yachts and excursion boats. South of the motorway, connected to the rest house by an underpass, there were gas stations , workshops, apartments for 160 employees, a laundry, a butcher's and a heating center.

art

On the terrace is the bronze statue Die Schauende by Fritz Klimsch .

Post-war use

Jetty of the former US Armed Forces Recreational Center

Between 1945 and 2002 the US armed forces used the complex as a recreation center (US Armed Forces Recreational Center) with its own PX . The listed building has been sold several times and has been used as a specialist clinic for psychosomatics under the name Medical Park Chiemseeblick since 2012 .

The currently used motorway rest area Chiemsee including the rest area is located a few hundred meters further east on the bank.

literature

  • Karl Lindner: The convalescent home Rasthaus am Chiemsee. A text and picture report. 2 volumes, Berlin, Reichsautobahn-Raststätten-Gesellschaft, 1940–1942. With 63 mounted original photographs on cardboard.
  • Benjamin Steininger: space machine Reichsautobahn. On the dynamics of a known / unknown building. Berlin, Kadmos-Verl. 2005, pp. 154-167, 202-205.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sven Bardua: Germany's first rest stop . In: faz.net , January 13, 2011, accessed March 19, 2017
  2. ↑ Freiberger buys Rasthaus . Report on ovb-online.de from January 24, 2009, accessed on March 19, 2017
  3. ^ Gernot Pältz: Rasthaus becomes a specialist clinic . In: Chiemgau-Zeitung , August 4, 2011, accessed on March 19, 2017

Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 2.4 ″  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 26.5 ″  E