Posted on 10/11/2025 8:26:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The historic Thurn und Taxis hunting lodge was burned down on Monday morning. Lappersdorf Volunteer Fire Department.
German police are investigating whether far-left extremists from Antifa were behind a massive fire that destroyed the historic Thurn und Taxis hunting lodge near Regensburg, Bavaria earlier this week.
The fire, which broke out in the early hours of Monday, reduced the 19th-century building to its outer walls and caused damage estimated at around €4 million.
Authorities confirmed that a statement claiming responsibility for the arson has been posted on the far-left online platform Indymedia.
The message, signed by an “Antifa Kommando,” described the fire as a “warning” to Gloria, Dowager Princess of Thurn und Taxis, accusing her of “reactionary” and “fascist” sympathies.
Police in Regensburg said the statement is being examined but stressed that they are “investigating in all directions.”
The lodge, located in the Fürstlicher Thiergarten near Donaustauf, was being used as a golf club and restaurant. Local mayor Jürgen Sommer lamented the “heartbreaking loss” for the community, while the restaurant’s operators wrote on social media: “Our shared place of enjoyment, passion, and encounter is destroyed. What remains is emptiness and pain.”
In its incendiary statement, Antifa justified the attack by citing the princess’s alleged connections to right-wing figures such as former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, and members of Germany’s AfD party.
The text accused Thurn und Taxis of representing “monarchy, contempt for humanity, and class privilege,” and threatened that “if you don’t stop your inhuman agitation, next time not only your golf club will burn.”
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the worst case scenario for a leftist government is an alternative
Agree. Very nicely formatted sentiment, and worth quoting. Consider it well and truly "borrowed."
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