products that this lost place it is something very special: it is about the historic former junkyard Gürbetal, part site of the car recycling operation Messerli Autoverwertung GmbH in the town purchase village in the Swiss canton of Bern. The junkyard set is a collection of over 1,000 wrecked cars and 400 motorcycles from the 1930s to the 1970s began dar. 
history
A trained carpenter Walter Messerli 1933 with the trade of used automotive spare parts. For this purpose he bought on disused vehicles, built from reusable parts and put the bodies on the farm Estate of his parents. As neighbors felt disturbed by the sight of the car wrecks, Messerli had on the order of the community plant trees as a screen.
1975 Franz Messerli took the business from his father and led the company. The now considerable collection of salvaged vehicles with a focus on 1940s to 1960s, which sank some are already in overgrown vegetation, was an exceptional testimony of the Swiss transportation history, both the Swiss Transport Museum as well as the Historical Museum Bern attested a cultural-historical value.
vehicles
addition to everyday Vehicles of the 1940s to the 1960s as Auto Union, Volkswagen, Mercedes, Ford, Opel, Lloyd, Goliath, Fiat, Peugeot and Citroen were exotic car types such as Studebaker, Mercedes-Benz 190 SL Roadster, Panhard, Sunbeam or Buick parked in the junkyard. However, special bodies and bodies, such as a Peugeot 203 Cabriolet with Worblaufen-body or a VW bus with a rare Beutler-up, and even vehicles of the Soviet bloc as Framo or Tatra were found on the site. Bids for individual wrecks and their sometimes very valuable parts were rejected by the auto recycler Messerli long time. "I see the junkyard like a puzzle. Absence of only one particle, it is never complete " Messerli commented.
Since Messerli the public denied the access, remained Kaufdorf cars, apart from the natural decay, often get completely - other than on similar sites such as Kyrko Mosse in Sweden or in a forest near Châtillon (Belgium ). eviction
The historically evolved recovery operation finally met the now no longer applicable federal and cantonal regulations. After assistance from the canton from spring 2000 was issued by the municipality purchasing the village in 2004 of measures to the operator. It was also for environmental reasons, the clearance Car of the cemetery and cleaning the land disposed.
addition Messerli also Oldtimerfreunde fought against the eviction order. The legal dispute between the municipality and Messerli Kaufdorf and the search for solutions to maintain the car cemetery, such as a museum, was an international media coverage. 2008, organized by the Friends of Historic cemetery Gürbetal car on the car cemetery is a national art exhibition. The site was prepared for the expected high number of visitors. On areas where the wrecked cars are parked close together, pedestrian bridges were built. Over 30,000 people visited the exhibition and the junkyard.
resolution
Despite the global echoes and concepts of a receipt of the car cemetery agreed to purchase the village community to the change of use not. They complained that did not meet environmental requirements and an unsecured financing. The association suspected revenge motif as part of the community, as it had come in recent decades to about a hundred legal battle between the family and the community Messerli and residents. A final deadline for a new redeployment was first granted to March 2009, then to September 2009. After this period, the evacuation was ordered. While the patrons by his own account the evacuation decision, accepted Messerli refused to be the evacuation and left the period to end March 2009 are being missed.
Shortly Messerli agreed to the eviction order. First, he tried unsuccessfully to auction any vehicle, the car cemetery "en bloc", the required minimum bid was at 1.09 million Swiss francs. Finally, an auction was organized by the Classic Car Gallery Toffen on at the 19th September 2009, the vehicles were sold individually and with no minimum bid. 499, or about two thirds of the vehicles were sold for prices 50-17000 Swiss francs, the rest was discarded.
Messerli like to put the cleared area in the future as a storage place for Travellers available to the community Kaufdorf plans, however at the same place a lake.
sources including: Wikipedia; Sunday newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine, 4 10. 2009
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