Traffic bans

The name says it all: You are not allowed to drive in such marked roads (depending on what kind of vehicle you are travelling with). 

The ban does not apply to hand vehicles or animals, motorcycles, bicycles and personal transporters you may push. 

The signs indicate roads which may not be used by motor vehicles, motorcycles, lorries, buses, mopeds, riders or pedestrians. (from top left to bottom right)

You can't drive into the road, but vehicles can come out of it.

The following symbols prohibit you from participating in traffic if you are travelling with a vehicle whose dimensions or weights, including the load, exceed an actual limit indicated on the symbol. 

From top left to bottom right: 

• Actual width
• Actual height
• Actual length
• Actual axle load
• Actual mass 

The sign prohibits you, if you drive a motor vehicle with a maximum permissible mass of more than 3.5 t or a tractor, from undercutting the specified minimum distance to a preceding motor vehicle of the same type. Trucks and buses are exempt from the ban.

The following two signs prohibit motor vehicles from overtaking multi-track motor vehicles and motorcycles with sidecars. Where a weight such as 7,5t is indicated on an additional symbol, the prohibition shall apply only if the maximum authorised mass of such motor vehicles, including their trailers, exceeds the specified limit. 

The end of a prohibition of overtaking shall not be marked if the length of the line to which it applies is indicated on an additional symbol or if the prohibition is indicated together with a danger symbol and it is clear from where the danger no longer exists. 

This sign can be found on roads with a central island, for example, where you could turn, but which would endanger or obstruct other road users. It forbids turning, but not turning to the left.

You must not drive faster than the specified maximum speed. Outside built-up areas, speed limits applicable to certain types of vehicle shall remain in force despite the sign.