Overview
- The city has started disconnecting utilities and gutting the 1932-listed building in Travemünde, a preparatory phase expected to take about a week with fencing now in place.
- The Schleswig administrative court rejected the owner's emergency application, clearing the way for municipal demolition to proceed.
- The owner, who remains unnamed, says he will pursue further legal remedies after losing the urgent bid.
- He contends he holds a late-January heritage permit to shift the house roughly 20 meters inland using hydraulic lifting and sliding, with costs estimated at €80,000 to €100,000.
- Lübeck argues a relocation is logistically, legally and technically challenging near the cliff edge, as erosion has reduced the former ~100-meter setback; the main house will be removed while ancillary buildings remain for now.