So I just experienced something really weird and I’m curious if anyone knows what’s going on here.

We were driving through a completely normal residential neighborhood in Germany, just regular houses, nothing special. The street is basically a loop (a small circular road), and right in the middle of it there’s a gate across the road.

It doesn’t look official at all, more like something private. There’s no sign that the area behind it is restricted or anything like that. Just normal houses on both sides.

There is a small sign on the gate that says: “Please close the gate.”

The gate itself wasn’t locked, we were able to just open it, drive through, and close it again. Nothing happened, no alarms, no one came out, nothing.

What confuses me is:

It’s not the entrance to a private driveway

It’s literally in the middle of a public-looking street

There’s nothing behind it that seems like it needs protection

Why would someone put a gate there?

Is this a common thing somewhere, or just something random/private?

Would love to hear if anyone has seen something like this before 😄



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19 comments

  4. Würde auf nen Fall von Selbstjustiz schließen und ehrlich gesagt mal das Ordnungsamt oder Bauamt anrufen 😂 nach dem Motto „ey die fahren hier viel zu schnell durchs Dorf, wir haben Kinder“ und die gemeinte tut ewig nix und Ordnungsamt gibt’s nicht

  5. The only thing I could think of is that they don’t want people to use this road too much so they make it inconvenient and people therefore don’t drive though the neighborhood if they don’t live there

  6. See if you can find someone there and ask them this (iconic) question: “Haben Sie eine Genehmigung für dieses Tor?”

    If they answer “Nein”, you reply “Das gibt eine Anzeige!”

  7. My guess is that too many people used to take this residential street as a shortcut, the residents complained, and the council put the gate there to make the shortcut inconvenient.

  10. Maybe to Stop people making shortcuts. But for normal they use bollards for that. We had the case Here that Trucks drove through our Hood to save 2 km.

  11. Was it a verkehrsberuhigte Straße (living street) or was there a speed limit of 30? Maybe it got put it up because people were driving too fast… I‘m curious now, too!

  12. Shortly before is a sign on the road for a dead end. I think it’s used to avoid the shortcut through the neighborhood. So people are forced to take the bigger road towards the canal.

  15. This probably got installed to deter people from using a street as a short cut. The street I grew up in had something similar in the form of stone pillars. It helped keeping the street safe for children and quiet.

  16. It seem to be a public road looking at the online Katasterplan from Schlesweg Holstein. Also if you check maps you can see it has public road signs signaling a deadend so its official most likely. Cant tell you the reason tho. If ur lucky someone from the area reads this post and can tell you. After a quick research i can tell you my assumption: the Schulweg connects Dorfstraße with the inspektor-Weimar-Weg. The District-Court of Achterwehr is located on that street. So its most likely intentional to stop shortcuts through the neighbourhood.

  17. Ahhh I actually know this as I know someone who lives in Achterwehr that is involved in the local council and was talking about this the other day! So, this road was used as a shortcut through the village by many heading towards A210 (the Autobahn/highway) and just too many cars were going through this residential street, often too fast. The community council agreed to have the gate put there as a solution. Afaik it can be opened in case of emergencies and such.

  18. Judging by the map you provided they don’t want through traffic between Dorfstraße and the street with the bus stops.

  19. Die Straße ist auf beiden Seiten als Sackgasse markiert.
    Ich gehe mal davon aus, dass sich ein Stück der Straße auf einem Privatgrundstück befindet und der Eigentümer kein Wegerecht eingeräumt hat.

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