Authorities looked away for a long time – “ghost house” is threatened with demolition after 70 years

A hut in Zwettl an der Rodl, which was illegally expanded in the 1950s, has been rented out for residential purposes for a very long time. Because all attempts at legalization by the communities failed, their days are now numbered.

An illegally built residential building in Zwettl an der Rodl has “survived” for almost 70 years. Now the days of black construction could be numbered. “I’ll probably have to issue a termination notice. But I assume that the homeowner will exhaust all legal means and go to the state administrative court,” says ÖVP Mayor Roland Maureder. In 2015, Stein got rolling. Since taking office in 2015, he has been dealing with the cause that his predecessors caused him. For many years, they have never paid closer attention to the home of a Zwettler, 2.5 kilometers from the town center. “The house has also been rented for many years. Up until 2015, no one ever bothered to clear things up. And in the last eight years we have only been put off,” Greens community leader Rainer Lenzenweger has no sympathy for this sloppiness appearing “haunted house”. “Then it was said to wait for the building law amendment. This has been around for two years. Nothing happened again. The speed with which the matter is being tackled is irritating,” Lenzenweger also criticizes. House demolitions are never fun, so we would have preferred it if we had found a way to legalize it.”
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