Envy building
Neidbau is an outdated legal term for a building that is not only built in one's own interest, but primarily to harass a neighbor or to cause him a disadvantage. The term “neydpau” appears in writing in the municipal law of Munich in 1489 . The city charter of Hamburg (1603), the building regulations of Ulm (1683) and Augsburg (1740) also know the Neidbau. The construction of a Neidbau is described in the various legal systems as illegal and therefore prohibited.
The building of envy is still common today in Swiss law in connection with Art. 2 II of the Civil Code ("The apparent abuse of a right does not find legal protection."). Also the German Civil Code prohibits with the ban on harassment ( § 226 , "The exercise of a right is inadmissible if it can only have the purpose of causing damage to another.") A Neidbau.
