The renovation of the Kånsta factory by Ernst Kirchsteiger was illegal

This summer, viewers were able to follow when Ernst Kirchsteiger built the old mill in Kånsta in a luxury summer residence, with everything needed.

Now, the county court finds that the renovation was illegal.

"A rape of cultural heritage" called the Ernst summer project – and won.

This year, during the show "Summer with Ernst" on TV4, the audience followed when Ernst Kirchsteiger built and renovated the magnificent Kånsta mill in the municipality of Hallsberg, near Örebro.

But the reconstruction caused strong emotions in the countryside.

Many neighbors who wanted to keep the mill as a cultural heritage were upset and appealed to the municipality's building permit from the county court.

The red wind turbine, built in 1858, driven by wind and hydroelectricity, is the only one left in Sweden.

Now the county court has given the villagers the right.

The county's board repeals the construction law and grants arrears to the municipality, writes Nerikes Allehanda.

The municipality of Hallsberg granted the production company the building permit "Summer with Ernst" on 12 April and paid the company a sum of 580 000 SEK for mill rust.

But the municipality did not inform the villagers that the plant would be turned into a holiday home and place of registration.

In addition, the municipality did not send a building permit to the neighbors concerned and did not give them the opportunity to comment on it.

Only two months after obtaining the building permit, the neighbors received the documents – it was already too late: the mill had already been refurbished.

As a result, the building permit is now repealed.

"They sent building permits to a lot of people there – but not to us in the community, but we're right next door," says Suzann Bernsgården at Nerikes Allehanda.

She grew up near the mill and became a partner of Kånsta S: 1, which is located right next to the municipality's property with the windmill.

With three other partners, she has called for the promise of construction – and has now got the right.

"In particular, it is the historical and cultural value.It is simply too important to turn the mill into a holiday home.The optimum would be that they screw everything and restore it" says Suzann Bernsgården at Nerikes Allehanda.

Ernst Kirchsteiger responded to this summer's critics in Aftonbladet:

"I have good conscience and know that I am doing everything in my power to preserve the Swedish cultural heritage.It is not a question of turning my buildings into something else." be allowed to stand up and be honored, he said.

Aftonbladet searched for Ernst Kirchsteiger.

October 19, 2018 9:55 p.m.