Kugelmugel

People's Republic of Kugelmugel Micronation
Flag Official seal of Kugelmugel Official seal
Status	Administered by Mag. Linda Treiber
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 People's Republic of Kugelmugel, is a micronation located in Vienna, Austria. It resulted from a dispute between the artist Edwin Lipburger and the Austrian authorities, due to his permission to build a spherical house. Today it's administered by Mag. Linda Treiber.

History

In June 1982, the house was moved into the Prater park, near the Hauptallee, and enclosed by eight-foot-tall barbed-wire fences. The house has 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. Lipburger died in January 2015, but the Republic officially holds a population of over 650 non-resident citizens. Nowadays, the Republic is administered by Vienna's government and used as a tourist attraction.

The word "Kugel" means "ball" or "sphere" in German; the word "Mugel" is an Austrian German expression for "bump" or "hill on a field" and also the root for the name of mogul skiing.

• 
  The Republic of Kugelmugel
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  The inside of the sphere

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)