Overview
- Forest workers first noticed a covered pallet of boards more than a year ago and later found a cleared build site, after which a two‑storey wooden hut was erected in August over about four weeks from a €5,000 internet kit.
- Surveillance photos captured a recurring man at the site, investigators matched a vehicle registration to a 43‑year‑old from Bad Tölz and police confronted him after identifying his identity.
- A search of the man’s home recovered weapons including historical muzzleloaders and an armbrust, officers say he admitted owning permit‑free firearms and a surveillance image showing a possible weapon was sent to the Landeskriminalamt for analysis.
- The Tölzer Forstbetrieb says the illegal structure must be removed and the man now faces administrative and criminal probes for violations of nature‑protection rules, building law, weapons regulations and damage to forest property.
- Police say findings make the man likely linked to the prepper scene but they have ruled out any connection to a separate Karwendel barrel cache; note that some historic firearms can be owned without a permit but may not be legally carried or used.