rmdir unable to remove directory than is 0wned by me and has me as group

it might just be some finer details that I misses about the filesystem...
could you please fill me in :)

I did
> sudo mkdir /usr/share/test
> sudo chown christian:christian /usr/share/test
> rmdir /usr/share/test
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/usr/share/test’: Permission denied

whaaat???

> ls -la /usr/share/ | grep test
drwxr-xr-x    2 christian christian  4096 jan 30 22:09 test

I even did:
> chmod 777 /usr/share/test
> rmdir /usr/share/test
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/usr/share/test’: Permission denied

> sudo rmdir /usr/share/test
removed the file with no problem...

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