The two landmændsbrødre Gerhart and Egon Rasmussen has been an unexpected gift from the municipality, which they never asked for.

Aabenraa Municipality has, in fact, completely without notice, broken the farmers ' private bridge down and built a new 700,000 municipal crowns.

It tells the Jutland west Coast.

the Bridge goes over a small river and connects the two farmers ' fields. It was in connection with the work of farmers on their land, they discovered a group of workmen from the municipality, who were to break their bridge down and erect a new one.

"We will come there, because we have the land at the bridge. There we see it. They were just started to make the bridge down there. We had not gotten to know before," says Gerhart Rasmussen.

He speaks singing sønderjysk and finds the cash, that brødreparret shame had not asked the municipality to build them a new bridge, or pay for it.

"We said to them, who worked on the bridge, that we could not understand, that they made the bridge, for it was as our. But they had been told, and so it was," says Gerhart Rasmussen.

The two landmændsbrødre shrugged his shoulders and said, " it was exciting, what the municipality had intended. In the course of the month, the work of the bridge was done, they contacted the local authority does not in order to draw Cratosslot attention to the misunderstanding.

For it was just what it was. Aabenraa Municipality had incorrectly recorded the bridge as a public bridge. And the municipality's register showed that it was time to renovate it.

"We have made a mistake. A regrettable mistake," says Aabenraas Municipality director of culture, environment and occupation, Stig Werner Isaksen, to the Jutland west Coast, and continues:

"The concrete employee has acted in good faith. Concretely, we come now to go all the register through, so we can be sure that we are not going to use more of that kind of money."

two of The farmers have not a bad conscience that they failed to address themselves directly to the municipality and make them aware of the error.

It is the municipality's tax dollars that are spent on your new bridge. Felt In the not an obligation to tell them that it was a private bridge?

"We had not ordered the work," says Gerhart Rasmussen.

And did not think, that it was could be a mistake?

"No, we did not do that," he says.

Is it fair that the municipality has paid for your new bridge?

"No, I think not."

Will you then pay for the bridge?

"No, for then I would rather have the old bridge again."

Aabenraa Municipality will, according to the Jutland west Coast does not charge money from farmers, because they consider it as the municipality's own mistakes.