1/3 A Niederdorfer against the rest freiepresse.de /erzgebirge/stollberg/ein-niederdorfer-gegen-den-rest-artikel10516891 He calls his house the "stickman house of Niederdorf": Ralph Gehler lives with his wife Ramona on Angerweg. But for years he has been at odds with the community and neighbors. Are you now trying to drive him out of town? Niederdorf. Ralph Gehler sees himself as a fighter. For justice. For his freedom, for his rights. His parents' house, where he lives with his wife Ramona, is on Angerweg. "The mayor wants to finish me off. But I won't let that happen." The 57-year-old was born in Niederdorf and wants to stay there. However, Mayor Stephan Weinrich says: "It was not possible to come to an objective agreement with Mr. Gehler. I would be lying if I said I would regret it if he no longer lived in Niederdorf ." How could this happen? The fronts are hardened in this case. The statements are preceded by months, years of argument. Even under Weinrich's predecessor Roland Lippmann . Over the garden fence, in court. At the beginning of March, Gehler and Weinrich sat with the notary. Gehler's house was to be sold to the municipality of Niederdorf for 21,000 euros. It's the "stickman's house of Niederdorf", as Ralph Gehler proudly calls it. He has painted his half-timbered house, with excerpts from the land register and names of former owners as well as statements about the mayor, which can easily be taken as an insult. 2/3 But Ralph Gehler dropped the appointment. At the notary he gets up and leaves. "I'm not selling my parents' house. Above all, I know what's underneath." A treasure, Ralph Gehler is sure of that. Maybe the Amber Room, he doesn't want to say exactly. He is in contact with the former mayor of Deutschneudorf , who has been looking for the amber room for a long time. The Oberbergamt also knows about it. The authorities in FreibergHowever, when asked by the "Freie Presse", reports that Gehler's property has no indication of old mining or other underground cavities. But Ralph Gehler is quite sure. Again and again he finds pieces of evidence, small figures, which unfortunately are mostly broken. "Then I sit outside and clean them. How do you think the neighbors look?" The mayor reports that Ralph Gehler has been tyrannizing those around him for decades: insults, threats, burning things on his property, eggs against the walls of neighbors' houses are just examples. Other residents of Niederdorf, with whom "Freie Presse" spoke, confirm something similar. When asked, the public prosecutor's office also said: "So far he has been charged with coercion, bodily harm and insult." Ralph Gehler admits that he likes to make a fire on his property. Among other things, it burns hard coal. When asked whether the neighbors weren't complaining, he said: "Hard coal is just hard coal." A year ago his caravan burned down in the garden. Ralph Gehler says he was in the house at the time. Someone else would have set the trailer on fire. Stephan Weinrich, who went out as a fireman, remembers: "We put it out. Then Mr. Gehler comes along and says, as it were, in passing: 'By the way, there are still gas bottles in there.' You can't think of anything else." But Ralph Gehler feels right. And cheated by the community years ago when they bought the adjacent Ruhmühle in 2009. Parts of these would have been on his property, says the 57-year-old. "I can prove everything, I'm in the land register." When the community began demolishing parts of the Ruhmühle in 2012, he even stopped construction. The process dragged on. "The site was re-measured, but they didn't come to any different conclusions," recalls the then mayor, Roland Lippmann. The dispute ended with a settlement, according to Lippmann. "This legally closes the matter." Not for Ralph Gehler, he wants compensation. "The mayor only wants my house because he wants what's underneath." Stephan Weinrich rejects this. "That's ridiculous." For him there are two reasons why he would buy this house: First, to promote the development of the Glory Mill. "And to restore peace in the neighborhood on Angerweg. I don't care how that happens," says Weinrich, who even wanted to find apartments for Gehler in Chemnitz, where he works. Not an option for Ralph Gehler. He cannot be chased away. Trying to buy the house wasn't the community's first activity. Ralph Gehler owes her a debt. The administration has been collecting this for some time, among other things, his account has been seized and detention ordered. The public prosecutor's office also confirms that a large number of fine proceedings are open. At the beginning of the year, Ralph Gehler was in Zwickau for two weeksone. Was that bad for him? "No, why? Only my teeth broke from the hard bread there," says Ralph Gehler. Because he resisted when the police wanted to pick him up for jail, the next court date is already next week. "The mayor is trying to wear me down. But he can't do it. Because he's a zero," Gehler 3/3 complains. The latter, on the other hand, says: "Mr. Gehler cannot be reached. We will continue to use all legal means to solve this situation. He must feel the consequences of his actions," says Stephan Weinrich. So that peace can finally return to the place. "And if that means he leaves the place in the end, then we can live with that."