Edelweiss Lodge and Resort was built to replace a series of older
Armed Forces Recreation Center (AFRC) hotels (General Patton Hotel and
General Von Steuben in Garmisch-Partenkirchen). Other hotels throughout the AFRC Resort history included the now-demolished
General Walker Hotel in
Obersalzberg. Following the conclusion of the
Second World War in Europe, a number of formerly
German military hotels and resort complexes were taken over by the
United States Army and put into use as
R&R centers for the benefit of the soldiers stationed there. While these older hotels served this purpose well for many years, they also became expensive to continue to maintain. In the spring of 2000, the U.S. Army and members of the
United States Congress approved plans to construct a modern resort hotel in the
Bavarian resort town of
Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Upon completion of the new hotel, AFRC-Europe closed AFRC-Chiemsee (Seehotel was a former Reichsautobahn
Rest area "Rasthaus am Chiemsee" from Nazi times) and the General Patton Hotel in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and consolidated the remaining AFRC facilities in Garmisch-Partenkirchen under the new Edelweiss Lodge and Resort. The Edelweiss Lodge and Resort was featured in the 2016 movie Eddie the Eagle. Scenes were filmed in the lobby one of the restaurants and the entrance to the conference room. ==Facilities==