Kugelmugel

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The "Republic" Kugelmugel
The interior of the sphere
Kugelmugel from a bird's eye view
Embassy of the Republic Kugelmugel Singerstraße 20, law firm Dr. Ramin Mirfakhrai

Kugelmugel is a spherical house with a diameter of 8 meters, erected on a small piece of ground fenced with barbed wire in the Wiener Wurstelprater , which was created by the artist Edwin Lipburger (* 1928 in Lauterach / Vorarlberg ; † 8 January 2015 ) and moved here in 1982 after he had it 11 years earlier without an official consensus in Lower Austria. It can be seen as a micronation .

history

In 1971 Edwin Lipburger put a ball house on a meadow in Katzelsdorf near Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria near Landesstrasse 4091. Since there was no building permit , Lipburger justified himself by stating that his "only temporarily stabilized sphere" was a "positive, constant, two-dimensional space and therefore not a term in the sense of the Lower Austrian building code" or a "construction model for a 20-meter-thick sphere made of reinforced concrete" be. He also put up curved place-name signs, which were confiscated by the gendarmerie and triggered a legal dispute, which is why he was sentenced by the District Court of Wiener Neustadt in 1979 to ten weeks imprisonment for presumption of office , which also had to be served. As early as 1976, "Revolutionsführer" Lipburger proclaimed the not officially recognized republic of Kugelmugel.

At the beginning of June 1982, with the support of the then City Councilor for Culture Helmut Zilk , the Kugelhaus was relocated to the Vienna Prater in the current location behind the Vienna Planetarium . This place is on the Prater Hauptallee near Vivariumstraße. The almost 100 m 2 area, overgrown with meadow , was designated by the artist with an official street sign Antifaschismusplatz . Essentially, it is regularly fenced in octagonally. The 9 concrete fence pillars, about 2.60 m high, carry chain-link fence, but from the top section of the fence, tension wires and barbed wire kink outwards . At one corner is the entrance in the form of a wooden door, which is painted with a red and white beacon pattern, as is usual for sentinels .

A lying, rectangular board with horizontal stripes in white, red and white, a black and white logo in the middle of a portrait and the inscription “Republic of Kugelmugel / Grenzübergang” flags the “State” above this gate with a letter slot . Communication takes place via notices in a showcase with A4 papers as well as two approximately 1.50 m × 3 m large white billboards with text, which are held by 2 aluminum scaffolding about 2.50 m above the ground. The web address www.ublic-kugelmugel.com given under the signature "General Public Prosecutor Edwin Lipburger-Kugelmugel" led to an idiosyncratic self-portrayal that is still available in the web archive today. According to an article in the press from August 2014, Lipburger's car, parked by his apartment in Penzing, was emblazoned with the words “State within the State. Kugelmugel. Extra-territorial. "

In 2008 there were around 600 people worldwide who identified themselves as citizens of Kugelmugel in a document.

Lipburger's son Nikolaus continues the work. In the spring of 2016, a symposium was convened within Kugelmugel, and it was planned to make the place available again as a space for artistic exhibitions. Since then (as of 2018) there have been regular art events.

background

"[...] the Republic of Kugelmugel has de facto its own center, completely independent of the center of the globe, so each Kugelmugel thing has its own legal, independent form, free of binding and legally binding recognition [...]. Kugelmugel is not a state in the sense of international law , above all domestic and foreign experts denied a state people of Kugelmugel, because there is no community life and no long-term suitable living space, with the creation of the artificial sphere, 'SPHÄRA2000', is not one new surface of the earth gained, but also no old one was reduced [...]. "

- The Kugelmugel Republic and its universal meaning

Web links

Commons : Kugelmugel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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Individual evidence

  1. www. Republik-kugelmugel.com ( Memento from June 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 55.9 ″  N , 16 ° 23 ′ 45.9 ″  E