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A woman who lives above a cheese shop in a German Alpine village has kicked up a stink over the smells wafting up to her apartment, forcing a judge to step in on Tuesday.

A Munich court ruled that Manuela Kragler, who lives on top of the Toelzer Kasladen shop in Bad Heilbrunn, can no longer display stickers depicting a nose and a warning sign.

But a court spokeswoman, quoted by national news agency DPA, said the unhappy neighbor could still voice her opposition that "there is an odor that is a nuisance and that she finds it stinks" because it was "an expression of opinion."

The Bad Heilbrunn municipality is in Germany's southern Bavaria region which is famous for its dairy produce. But the shop's arrival got up Kragler's nose.

The owner Hofmann "denied there was a smell problem right from the start." 

A solution to the problem may be on the horizon, as Hofmann added that he was seeking new premises.

AFP