Osterfelderstraße 2, once an officer’s casino, then, in 1939, an army administration building, and then, after World War II, the General Patton Hotel.

The General Patton Hotel was owned and operated by the U.S. Armed Forces Recreation Center (AFRC) since it opened in 1953, but was returned to the German Government in 2004. A German building contractor Ibrahim Kavun bought the 6,115 square meter (65,821 square feet) complex in July 2014 for 1.72 million euros ($1,918,823.40 USD 2019 rate) and rented it to the Garmisch municipality who used the hotel to house foreign refugees until 2019, when construction began to turn the old Patton Hotel into a residence for wealthy seniors.

Above the original front door, a lüftlmalerei of two female figures seated on clouds around a globe like Saints, the Statue of Liberty from America on their left and an owl on an open book on their right, all painted by Heinrich Bickel in — as the Roman Numerals, “MDCCCCLIII,” say — in 1953.