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I deleted the plugin folder and the htaccess file, saved the permalink structure twice and now the site is online again.

Check your theme folder, functions.php and look for ob_start.

I had the same problem with this cache plugin before I removed this from my theme:

function wp_http_compression() {
if (stripos($uri, '/js/tinymce') !== false)
return false;
if (ini_get('output_handler') == 'ob_gzhandler')
return false;
if (extension_loaded('zlib'))
if(!ob_start("ob_gzhandler")) ob_start();
}
add_action('init', 'wp_http_compression');

It could also be a plugin that add some kind of compression to your site.

Delete the old html file and the redirect should work…

Noticed the same issue here just now. category-sitemap.xml redirect to a random page on the website in question.