Mannheim wrote:I don't believe the cellars could be accessed from the garage either as I am sure that had it been possible, I would've attempted to get in. ... additional photo of what I called the Goering steps (because I was told that the Goering house stood where the white marker is in the third photo)but I really have no idea what these steps were. The red arrow indicates where the steps were in relation to the white marker. Any feedback would be appreciated.
Sometimes that was access through a small opening at the left rear of the garage (just at the left corner, if one could have walked in the front door), sometimes not. When I was there in 1981, there definitely was NOT any access from the back of the garage, else I too would have been in there. But there was access there later in the 1980s - that's how people got into that part of the cellar.
Some of those steps are still there behind the site of Goering's house, but not all of those in your pic. Similar steps are on the other side, on the back side of that little hill to the left, with the wooden bench on it. I think these steps just led to walking paths that ran back in there (and still do - leading to the mergency exit of G's tunnel system).