Marco Scheel sits in a small brick manor house in the town of Züsow, which has almost 300 inhabitants.
When the young entrepreneur looks out the window, he sees the idyllic rolling landscape in the north of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
And a former horse stable that belongs to his "Gut Teplitz".
This horse stable, a maybe 350 square meter barn with thick walls made of old boulders, has been causing a stir for several weeks, far beyond the boundaries of the Northwest Mecklenburg district. Scheel founded the eco-textile manufacturer Nordwolle two years ago and would like to convert the stable. Renew the roof and floor, set up quilting machines and produce blankets, sweaters and jackets. A small economic miracle in a remote place. But it is not that easy in the Federal Republic of Germany. Reconstruction of a dispute that reveals the depths of the German regulatory mania.