Autobahn wurst fight leads to drivers being fed over a fence

“Three bratwurst,” someone calls from 10 metres away.

Three group are station behind a immature steel blockade during an Autobahn rest stop in Thuringia, executive Germany.

“With mustard?” Christina Wagner calls back.

She takes a sausages from a grill, sticks any in a apart bun, and places them cleanly in a wicker basket.

Then she walks over to a fence, climbs a ladder that’s propped adult subsequent to it, takes their cash, and passes down a basket.

“That’s crazy, unequivocally stupid,” one of a 3 group reflects, looking during a fence. Another describes it as “bureaucratic madness”.

It’s a same routine a 53-year-old Wagner goes by large times each day.

Some business ask if there is a dark camera somewhere, meditative they are being filmed for a comedy show, Wagner says.

The blockade has even valid dangerous. In 2012, a immature male badly harmed himself after he climbed over it to try and get to a restaurant. According to military he got a ring stranded in a handle and pulled a finger off.

Wagner bought a grill in 2009 and changed with her father and 3 children from Karlsruhe in southwestern Germany to start a new life in a former East German state of Thuringia.

But when she acquired a premises, a state’s Office for Transport had already taken divided it’s sales licence.

As distant as Wagner sees it, a state duped her into a squeeze so that they could make income off a genuine estate.

“We were burned so that they could sell a building. We positively didn’t buy it since we wanted to live by a Autobahn,” she says.

When she started offered prohibited snacks to drivers holding a mangle from a road, Thuringian authorities built a blockade around a grill in sequence to literally cut off her business.

After Wagner bought her ladder and kept offered her snacks, state authorities demanded that she compensate a fine.

With both parties refusing to behind down, a box is going to justice starting on Tuesday in Gera.

‘It’s zero personal, it’s only a law’

Christina Wagner. Photo: DPA

Markus Brämer, executive of a State Transport Office in Thuringia, sees no problem with a department’s decision.

The looseness ran out in 2004, he states, arguing that there are copiousness of use stations on that widen of highway already and there’s no need for one more.

“The Wagner family can sell their food to people walking in a forest, though they’re not authorised to sell it to people pushing down a motorway,” he says. “It’s zero personal, it’s only a law.”

But for Wagner, a preference to take divided a looseness from such a ancestral rest stop in a initial place was a wrong.

When a grill non-stop in 1936, it became a initial place in Germany – indeed substantially in a whole of Europe – where motorists could take a mangle from a boredom of a highway and suffer a prohibited meal.

In a time of a GDR, due to a vicinity to a border, it served people travelling from a approved West into comrade East Germany.

“It’s positively mocking that there is now a blockade there,” says Wagner who herself changed from a West to buy a business.

She insists she won’t give in, regardless of how a justice decides a case.

“Even if we remove I’m not going to compensate a fine. I’m a giveaway citizen in a giveaway country. They can detain me – a mom of 3 children – right here during a fence.”