the Kulturzentrum Bremgarten. Rental contract A lively response to the annual Whitsun market, which included information stands and a punk concert on the factory roof, generated a lot of interest and positive feedback. In August 1992, new opportunities arose when the Spanish Club left the venue and KuZeB took it over. On 27 August 1992, the association signed a rental contract, which was never countersigned. However, the heirs of the former textile manufacturer Meyer are still content to collect a small rent for the parking spaces and a part of the house. The rest is squatted. After this long negotiation phase, the elaborated utilisation concept could be put into practice step by step. Today, KuZeB is the oldest autonomous social centre in Switzerland that manages entirely without public funding. Conflicts KuZeB came under increasing pressure from the authorities. In order to control the free space, the authorities drew up a decree that the autonomous centre should be placed under the Hospitality Act. The financial, legal and organisational consequences would have meant the end of the non-commercial project. The cantonal Department of the Interior stated that there was no comparable case and therefore a precedent had to be set. However, the government council decided that KuZeB was not to be equated with commercial hospitality businesses, and accordingly did not fall under the Hospitality Act. On 29 May 2018, a police detachment searched the building as part of a request for legal assistance from Germany. A young man from Aargau, who was accused of aggravated breach of the peace and arson at the G20 riots in Hamburg, was not in Bremgarten at the time, but was later arrested in the Winterthur region. Nevertheless, the police searched his flat and the cultural centre and confiscated various data carriers there. The SVP hardliner Andreas Glarner would like to get rid of the KuZeB. The owner of the building, Max Meyer, has already had interested parties but has seen no reason to sell KuZeB. Bremgarten had hit the headlines in 2013 when asylum seekers were denied access to public facilities. Glarner threatened to buy the building to prevent asylum seekers from moving into KuZeB; he intensified his criticism of KuZeB after unknown persons spray-painted the venue of the SVP general assembly. Today's programme The cultural programme of the KuZeB ranges from alternative and subculture concerts of international format to readings, film screenings and political lectures.