Berchtesgaden gave rise to "Malereck" ("painters' corner") on the shore of Königssee in nearby Ramsau bei Berchtesgaden. The most famous author who lived in Berchtesgaden was Ludwig Ganghofer. Adolf Hitler had been vacationing in the Berchtesgaden area since the 1920s. He purchased a home in the Obersalzberg above the town on the flank of the Hoher Goll and began extensive renovations on his "Berghof" in the following years. As other top Third Reich figures such as Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Martin Bormann, Heinrich Himmler and Albert Speer began to frequent the area the Party began to purchase and requisition land in
Berchtesgaden Hauptbahnhof there is a bus station. Platform lengths and heights are as follows: The station is served by hourly trains of the Berchtesgadener Land Bahn on the Berchtesgaden–Freilassing route; these operate as line 4 of the Salzburg S-Bahn. An Intercity pair of trains, the "Königssee" runs from Hamburg to Berchtesgaden and back once a day; it is designated as a Regional-Express from Freilassing. Berchtesgaden Hauptbahnhof Berchtesgaden Hauptbahnhof (German for "Berchtesgaden main station"; sometimes translated as "Central Station") is a railway station in the Bavarian market town of Berchtesgaden, the smallest town in Germany with a Hauptbahnhof. It has five platform tracks