Coordinates: 47

° 38 N 13 ° 00 E / 47.633, 13 Bercht esgaden - a municipality, tourist resort and winter sports in Bav aria (Germany), located in the Salzburg Alps. Population in the m unicipality amounts to 7 662 (as of 31 December 2008). Berchtesga den is well known that in the years 1934-1945 ranged residence here of Adolf Hilter, Berghof. It was a meeting place for artists of the German Reich and Kurt von Schuschniggiem and Neville Chamberlain. February 12, 1938 in the village agreed to join the Third Reich of Austria (Anschluss).