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Eagle's Nest Subdivision named after Adolph
Hilter's Alpine Retreat
by Howard Melamed
I always thought that the founders of this city of Coral Springs
truly represented White Bread America. That is, everything
here in Coral springs, complete with the city motto "The best place
to work, live and raise a family " combined with the city government
overregulation to insure this pristine city that has no
homeless people and not a soup kitchen, is designed to keep
home prices high. However, as soon as the partner to the
city, the great and massive developer Coral Ridge Properties
left town, and we are fending for ourselves, do we nowsee the
true spirit of what they left us. That is, over
abundance of rental properties, apartments etc, that have raised our
crime statistics, increased the stress on our police
department , and raised our taxes. Over course some will argue that
our taxes have not been raised, but those of us who really know what
is going on, where the city has changed the taxes into 'hidden
taxes' called franchise fees ( see the article here), would
beg to differ.
Right now the city is embarking on changed the zoning of the
old Broken Woods Golf course located north of Sample Road, and east
of University. Our oldest golf course fell into
bankruptcy a few years ago, and many of us so called golfers
who used this course would tell you that Broken Clubs, is not
missed. However, a smart developer picked up the property and
is now before the city to once again, rezone property for
multifamily apartments which of course once again puts additional
pressure on our police force and other infrastructure which
will once again force the increase of our taxes and lower the
property values in the area. This very same development has in fact
lead me to examine other developments around the city which were
developed by WCI in their quest to move forward with the Best Place
to Live Work and Raise a Family.
How does all of this relate to Hitler and where am I going with
this? Welcome to the discussion about a subdivision in Coral Springs
know as Eagles' Nest , a town home development north of
Atlantic Boulevard and east of Coral Ridge drive.
Eagle's Nest has some nice looking houses in it. Built
in the 80's and 90's several Eagle Trace wannabees that is , those
people that couldn't afford the at the time, high cost homes
on the other side of the street in the gated community known as
Eagle Trace bought homes here. There is an Eagle's Nest
Apartments and Eagle's nest Drive and a private charter
school called Eagle's Nest Elementary School. What's
most incredible about this particular community is that strangely
enough is one of the few places on this planet that is named
the same as Hitler's country home in Bavaria, Eagle's Nest
referred to in German as Kehlstenhous. Oops. You
mean no one told you?
Oops again.
"Situated 1834m above sea level in one of the most strikingly
beautiful locations in Germany if not Europe, the Kehlsteinhaus,
also known to many as the "Eagle's
Nest", is a building steeped in history.
Commissioned by Reichsleiter Martin
Bormann as
a fiftieth birthday present for National Socialist leader Adolf
Hitler, theTeehaus perched
at the summit of the Kehlstein mountain in the Bavarian Alps has
become one of the most popular tourist destinations in southern
Germany."
The website to this is
http://www.eagles-nest.de/en/index.php . I suggest you
take a look at the namesake.
How is it possible that a subdivision is created in a partly Jewish
community ( Coral Springs is about 30% Jewish) can be named
after a well known Alpine country home of Adolph Hitler, the world's
worst murderer? I am sure many would be curious, but since
I am the only one that has found out this information in a world
that boasts of Internet Search engines changing our
intellectual landscape, is even more bizarre. Now that you are
informed of this incredible fact, as a Coral Springer ,
you will no doubt do absolutely nothing about it. In fact, to
do so, would be so out of character in a community where less than
10% show up for an election, and 90% complain about the result.
Eagle's Nest ( Coral Springs version) was not around
before the holocaust. The now defunct Coral Ridge
Properties, managed at the time by Hermann Buntmeyer ,
was in charge approving every name and every development in Coral
Springs. Someone had to know that Eagle's Nest was the
common name for the alpine retreat that was given to Adolph Hitler
for his 50th birthday present by Martin Bormann, a Riech leader and
head of the Nazi party chancelory! After all, the 70's
was only 30 years from the 40's .
TO have "Eagle's Nest" stay as a name in our community
is an abomination of the motto " The Best Place to Live , Work and
Raise a Family. " In fact, I am trying to find out where our
city founders stole this phrase and can only wonder that may have
come from some Nazi speech translation as well.
I am quite sure that many people will take offence to this article
and to the knowledge that someone else has actually found out what I
am sure to some Nazi sympathizer in our community, (remember our
city was after all also
home to Mohammad Atta), that this was an inside joke.
The most interesting part of this article is that fact that all of
the above came about when a Coral Springs citizen wrote me an email
asking me what I thought about the new nameless multifamily
subdivision that is about to be approved by the city.
Perhaps we should take care of not only what type of subdivision
that we approve, but let's due a more thorough search of the
name that they are about to use as well. At least that
way, we can swallow the spoon filled with the stuff the
developer and the city want to feed us.
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01/25/2010
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