Emergency appeal dismissed

Zehentmayr farm in Saalfelden is evicted!

A clearance company is currently on site and is emptying the house. It is not yet clear where the animals will be housed.

(Bild: Roland Hoelzl, Krone KREATIV)

Excitement in Saalfelden im Pinzgau: the Zehentmayr family's house and farm were evicted on Wednesday morning. After a postponement in August, the bailiff rolled up with an eviction company to confiscate belongings. An urgent application to stop the eviction was rejected on Tuesday.

Since the early hours of the morning, the farm of Friedrich Zehentmayr and his sister Regina at Schloss Lichtenberg in Saalfelden has been a hive of activity: household goods, appliances and animals are being cleared out and loaded into white vans. On Tuesday, the family applied for a postponement of the eviction - in vain. Armchairs, cookware and a compressor were carried out of the house by an eviction company under police supervision. The Salzburg Regional Court decided on Tuesday to evict the family in an expedited procedure. 

The family themselves were not at the court at the time of the eviction because Friedrich Zehentmayr's 40-year-old pregnant girlfriend went into labor in the morning. "The family is completely devastated," reports Karin Dollinger, SPÖ member of the provincial parliament. She stood up for the family and has no sympathy for the proceedings. She suspects that the court-ordered eviction was unlawful. "Several court proceedings are still ongoing in Germany and in our country," she says.

Friedrich and his sister Regina Zehentmayr had a mountain of debt that they were unable to pay off. Regina Zehentmayr's half of the farm has already been sold to a German investor with the help of a liquidator (as reported by Die Krone). According to Dollinger, the investor planned to build a chalet village there, but the authorities did not approve. Friedrich Zehentmayr does not know what will happen next. He is currently concentrating on his partner and the upcoming addition to the family.