Kugelmugel

Kugelmugel is on a small plot of land fenced in the Vienna Prater with barbed wire ball home from eight meters in diameter, which was built by the artist Edwin Lipburger.

History

In 1971, Edwin Lipburger in Katzelsdorf at Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria near the country road 4091 a ball house on a meadow. Since no building permit was present to Lipburger justified with the fact that his " only temporarily stabilized bullet" a "positive constant curved, two-dimensional space and therefore no meaning in the context of the Lower Austrian Building Code " or a " design model for a 20 meter thick ball of reinforced concrete " be. He also presented curved signposts, but they were seized by the police and a lawsuit triggered, for which he was sentenced by the District Court of Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria in 1979 because of usurpation to ten weeks in prison sentence that had to be served. As early as 1976 called Lipburger from the non-officially Republic Kugelmugel.

In early June 1982, the ball was called home to the Vienna Prater Vienna behind the planetarium at the current address to the Prater main avenue / Vivariumstraße, the artist anti-fascism Platz 1, misplaced.

Throughout the world, 611 people live (as of February 2008), who can identify themselves by document as citizens of Kugelmugel.

Background

" [ ... ] The Republic Kugelmugel has de facto own center, completely independent of the Erdkugelmittelpunkt, thus, each Kugelmugel thing intrinsically statutory independent form, free from binding and legally binding recognition [ ... ] Kugelmugel is not a State within the meaning of international law, especially denied in domestic and foreign experts state people of Kugelmugel because it in a community life missing ' and also does not provide suitable on a permanent habitat, with the creation of artificial ball, SPHÄRA2000 ', a new surface was obtained, but was also not an old reduced [ ... ]. "