The development of events surrounding the functionalist Tugendhat villa

Overview of the recent events regarding the Tugendhat villa:
December 14, 2001 - The Tugendhat villa designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
December 14, 2006 - The Brno City Council canceled the public contract for the renovation of the Tugendhat villa. The reason was a review of the tender for the project documentation for the renovations, which according to some indications may have been manipulated. According to the councilors, the estimated renovation cost of nearly 200 million crowns was significantly overestimated.
December 28, 2006 - The descendants of the Tugendhat couple asked the city of Brno and the Ministry of Culture for the return of the villa, which the Jewish family left before the war in 1938. The city received a request for a gratuitous transfer of the villa as a work of art, under the law on mitigating certain property injustices caused by the Holocaust.
January 9, 2007 - According to Brno city councilors, the city cannot return the Tugendhat villa to the descendants of the original owners. They claim that the basic legal prerequisites are not met - the villa is not considered an artwork and the city acquired it legally.
January 30, 2007 - The Brno city council instructed the councilors to prepare a proposal for the transfer of the villa to state ownership, which would then return it to the heirs of the original owners.
February 5, 2007 - A sculpture called "Torso of a Walking Woman," which was originally in the Tugendhat villa, was purchased at auction in London's Sotheby's auction house by an unidentified collector for one million pounds, approximately 42 million crowns. The auctioned sculpture was held by the Moravian Gallery in Brno until 2006, but was then returned to the Tugendhat family under the law on mitigating certain injustices caused by the Holocaust.
February 13, 2007 - The Brno council decided to send a request for an opinion on the transfer of the villa to the ministries of culture and finance and the Office for the Representation of the State in Property Matters.
March 17, 2007 - According to MfD and Brno Daily, both ministries and the Office for the Representation of the State in Property Matters refused to take the villa into state ownership.
March 19, 2007 - Brno city councilors decided that the monument should remain with the city.
March 20, 2007 - Brno city representatives decided that Brno would not return the Tugendhat villa to the descendants of the original owners.