Home owner Bettina Moser, of Oberneuberg, dialed 999 when she could hear the bird’s plaintive hoots coming from the stove attached to the kitchen chimney stack.
“In the end what worked was dropping a soft rubber ball down there on a rope,” explained a fire service spokesman.
“The owl instinctively clung onto the ball and we were able to haul it up to a part of the chimney that was easier to get at,” they added.
After dusting the soot from the owl’s wings, a vet checked it over before releasing it back into the wild.
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