Kugelmugel
Republic of Kugelmugel Republik Kugelmugel (German) Micronation | |
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Flag Official seal | |
Status | Nominally independent[citation needed] micronation subject to Viennese authority |
Location | 2., Antifaschismusplatz 1, Prater, Vienna, Austria |
Capital | Kugelmugel |
Official languages | German |
Demonym(s) | Kugelmuglian |
Organizational structure | Republic |
• Leader | Mag. Linda Treiber |
Establishment | |
• Declared | 19 December 1976 |
• Area | 94 square metres (1,010 sq ft) |
Purported currency | Euro |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Kugelmugel, officially the Republic of Kugelmugel (German: Republik Kugelmugel), is a micronation located in Vienna, Austria. It came about as the result of a dispute between Austrian artist Edwin Lipburger and Viennese authorities, whose permission was required for him to build a spherical house.
The 'Republic' is currently administered by Linda Treiber.
History
In June 1982, the house was installed at the Prater park, near the Hauptallee, and surrounded by eight-foot-tall barbed-wire fences. The house occupies the only address within the proclaimed Republic, that being "2., Antifaschismusplatz" ("2nd district of Vienna; Anti-Fascism Square"), which has since been officially adopted by the city of Vienna[citation needed]. Lipburger died in January 2015, but the Republic retains an official population of more than 650 non-resident citizens. Closed sometime during the COVID-19 pandemic, it was reopened to visitors on the 1st of June 2024.
In German, the word "Kugel" means "ball" or "sphere"; "Mugel" is an Austrian German expression for a bump or a hill on a field, from which mogul skiing is also derived.
- The Republic of Kugelmugel
- The interior of the spherical house
References
- Ryan, John; Dunford, George; Sellars, Simon (2006). Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-Made Nations. Footscray, Victoria, Australia: Lonely Planet. pp. 82–85. ISBN 1-74104-730-7.
External links
- Media related to Kugelmugel at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived March 27, 2022) (in German)
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