Kugelmugel

  
In 1971, Edwin Lipburger built a spherical house on a meadow. The meadow was in Katzelsdorf, Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria close to highway 4091. No planning permission existed, Mr.Lipburger defended himself that his “merely transient stabilized ball” would be a “positive constantly curved, two-dimensional space–––and therefore has no meaning in connection with the Lower Austrian Building Code.” Or else it would be a “design model for a 20 meter thick ball of reinforced concrete.”
Mr.Lipburger’s curved signposts were seized by the police and triggered a lawsuit. In 1979, he was sentenced by the District Court of Wiener Neustadt because of usurpation to ten weeks in prison.
In 1976, Mr.Lipburger had called out the nonofficial Republic of Kugelmugel.  In June 1982, the ball house was moved to the Prater in Vienna and placed behind the planetarium. It’s current address is Prater-Hauptallee and Vivariumstraße.
Around the world only 611 people can identify themselves by document as citizens of Kugelmugel.