Road signs in Germany

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List of road signs of Germany.

Warning signs[edit]

Warning signs, no longer erected[edit]

Regulatory signs[edit]

Information signs[edit]

Information signs, not used in the manual[edit]

Direction signs[edit]

Road equipment[edit]

  • Barrier board

  • Guiding beacon

  • guide cone

  • moveable road barrier

  • moveable road barrier with flashing arrow

  • reflexion post (right-hand side)

  • reflexion post (left-hand side)

  • Right turn on red permitted after a complete stop

Complementary plates[edit]

Obsolete signs[edit]

Historic signs (1971–1992)[edit]

  • Slippery road

  • Roadworks

  • Two way traffic ahead

  • Pedestrians

  • Children

  • Bicycles crossing

  • Wild animals crossing

  • Level crossing

  • Priority for oncoming vehicles

  • Turn right ahead

  • Turn left ahead

  • Turn right

  • Turn left

  • Ahead only

  • Go straight or right

  • Go straight or left

  • Turn right or left ahead

  • Keep right

  • Keep left

  • Public transport stop

  • Public transport stop

  • Public transport stop

  • Taxi rank (no parking allowed)

  • Bicycle lane

  • Bridleway

  • Pedestrian lane

  • Shared use path with separate lanes

  • Shared use path

  • Bus lane

  • No motor vehicles (except motorcycles)

  • No entry for motor vehicles

  • Prohibition of motor vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of over 3.5 metric tons including their trailers and tractors, other than passenger cars, buses and coaches

  • No bicycles

  • No motorcycles

  • No trailers

  • No horse-drawn vehicles

  • No equestrians

  • No pedestrians

  • No motor vehicles subject to identification of dangerous goods

  • Weight limit - trailers are considered separately (5.5 tonnes)

  • Width limit (including wing mirrors)

  • Height limit (3.8 meters)

  • Length limit (10 meters)

  • Snow chains are required

  • Low-emission zone

  • No traffic allowed without indicated minimum distance between vehicles

  • Speed limit

  • Vehicles capable of speeds exceeding 30 km/h only

  • No overtaking

  • End of speed limit (60 km/h)

  • End of 30 km/h minimum speed requirement

  • End of no overtaking

  • No stopping along Carriageway (start)

  • No stopping along Carriageway (end)

  • No stopping along Carriageway (middle)

  • No parking along Carriageway (start)

  • No parking along Carriageway (end)

  • No parking along Carriageway (middle)

  • Priority over oncoming vehicles

  • Town sign: Start of urban area (50 km/h speed limit)

  • Town sign: End of urban area

  • Parking place

  • Parking place (start)

  • Parking place (end)

  • Parking place (middle)

  • Sidewalk parking for vehicles with a gross vehicle weight up to 2.8 metric tons

  • Sidewalk parking for vehicles with a gross vehicle weight up to 2.8 metric tons

  • Motorway

  • Fast traffic highway

  • Motorway exit ahead

  • motorway-like road exit ahead

  • exit from motorway-like road

  • End of motorway

  • End of fast traffic highway

  • Pedestrian crossing

  • Pedestrian crossing patrol

  • No through road

  • First aid

  • Telephone

  • Emergency telephone

  • Petrol station

  • Petrol station with Unleaded fuel

  • Police station

  • Camping site

  • Caravan site

  • Caravan and camping site

  • Motorway radio information

  • Signpost at junction leading onto a major road

  • Signpost at junction leading onto a minor road

  • Signpost at junction

  • Route for heavy goods vehicles

  • Signpost at junction leading directly onto a motorway

  • Signpost at junction

  • Sign on approaches to junctions

  • Street name sign

  • Sign on approaches to junctions

  • Sign on approaches to junctions (lanes)

  • Deviation

  • Junction for cyclists

  • Diverting into opposite lane (1000m)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "German Road Signs: Guide to Parking & Road Signs in Germany". Auto Europe. Retrieved 17 November 2015. 
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