Ludwigsburg, Germany · Low emission zone
Official name Regionale Umweltzone „Ludwigsburg und Umgebung" — Maßnahme M 1 der Fortschreibung des Luftreinhalteplans für den Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart, Teilplan Ludwigsburg (2012)
In force in Ludwigsburg right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:05 · Europe/Berlin
The plan states the ban as ganzjährig — year-round — and neither publisher states any hours, so it is encoded as running all day, every day. That is the publishers' own framing of a standing condition on being inside the area, not an assumption filling in unstated hours.
What decides your case is the sticker, not the clock and not which of the ten municipalities you are in. There is one threshold here and it is uniform, which is the opposite of Stuttgart, where the answer for a diesel changes between the outskirts and the basin.
Some vehicles need no sticker at all and are therefore outside this rule at every hour — the Land names historic vehicles with an H registration, motorcycles and agricultural machinery among them. Individual exemptions also exist, under the Land's own Ausnahmekonzept, and they are granted by the local authority rather than by the timetable.
This encoding cannot see where the zone's edge runs, and the edge is what a regional zone makes hard: it is not a city limit but a line drawn across ten municipalities, signed on the ground. The area field names all ten so a driver can tell whether they are in one of them; it cannot tell them where inside a municipality the boundary falls.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
This is one zone across ten municipalities, and the ten are named. The Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart did something here it did nothing like in Stuttgart itself: rather than draw a cordon around a city, it took the separate Umweltzonen that had grown up around Ludwigsburg and welded them, plus two towns that had never been in one, into a single regional zone.
Its own sentence lists the members — the zone "aus den Kommunen Ludwigsburg, Kornwestheim, Möglingen, Markgröningen, Asperg, Tamm, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Ingersheim, Pleidelsheim und Freiberg a.N. besteht" — and the reason is stated as plainly: "Aus den bestehenden Umweltzonen rund um Ludwigsburg wird somit eine einzige ausgedehnte, regionale Umweltzone entwickelt." What it asks of a driver is the simplest question in the German system and the answer has been the same since 1 January 2013: the green Umweltplakette, pollutant group 4, and nothing less.
The plan sets it out as a year-round ban on pollutant groups 1, 2 and 3 — "d.h.
Kraftfahrzeuge mit grüner Plakette frei" — and the Land's transport ministry states the present-day position for the whole of Baden-Württemberg in one line: "Für alle Umweltzonen in Baden-Württemberg gilt inzwischen, dass nur noch Fahrzeuge mit einer grünen Plakette in ihnen fahren dürfen." Red and yellow stickers are not enough anywhere in the Land. Two things are worth knowing about where this zone stands today.
It is one of only two Umweltzonen left in the whole Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart: the Regierungspräsidium abolished four in May 2023 and four more in January 2024, and writes in the present tense that "Im Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart gibt es aktuell nur noch die Umweltzonen in Ludwigsburg und Umgebung sowie in Stuttgart." And the plan behind it is still being written — the third Fortschreibung, published in 2022, adds inflow control, a speed reduction, filter columns, bus lanes and parking management on the Schlossstraße, and abolishes nothing.
Unlike Stuttgart, there is no diesel ban layered on top here: the sticker is the whole test.
Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart — Fortschreibung des Luftreinhalteplans für den Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart, Teilplan Ludwigsburg, Maßnahmenband (2012), measure M 1. The act that created the regional zone: it names all ten member municipalities, sets the start date of 1 January 2013, states the ban as covering pollutant groups 1, 2 and 3 with green-sticker vehicles free, and records that the existing Umweltzonen in Markgröningen and in Pleidelsheim–Ingersheim–Freiberg a.N. keep their validity and are absorbed into it
Nothing is charged to enter and nothing can be bought that lets a banned vehicle in. This is a sticker rule, not a toll: a vehicle either carries the green Umweltplakette or it stays out of all ten municipalities. No day pass, entry charge, barrier or per-journey fee appears on any source read for this record.
One fee exists and it is not a charge for a journey: the green sticker itself is a one-off for the life of the vehicle's registration number, and the Land states that issuing bodies set their own price with 6 to 15 euros usual across Baden-Württemberg. This corpus holds the sticker separately as Germany's national requirement rather than restating it per city.
Year-round, all day. The plan states the ban as "ein ganzjähriges Fahrverbot", and ganzjährig is the word that settles the calendar: there is no smog season, no winter period and no holiday suspension, which several schemes in this corpus do have and this one deliberately does not.
No source read states a start or an end time, because neither publisher writes the rule as a timetable — it is a standing condition on being inside the area, in exactly the way it has been for the German Umweltplakette since the system began. So the encoding below runs every hour of every day, and that is the publishers' own framing rather than an assumption filling in unstated hours.
Nothing in this zone turns on the time of day, and nothing turns on where inside it you are either: unlike Stuttgart, there is one threshold and it applies uniformly across all ten municipalities.
Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart — Teilplan Ludwigsburg, Maßnahmenband (2012), measure M 1, which states the ban as ganzjährig from 1 January 2013; the 3. Fortschreibung of 2022 restates it in the same terms, and neither publisher states any hour
Ten municipalities, named by the authority that drew the zone, and that list is the whole point of this record.
The Regierungspräsidium writes: "Die Stufe 3 der Umweltzonen wird für die erweiterte, regionale Umweltzone „Ludwigsburg und Umgebung" festgesetzt, die aus den Kommunen Ludwigsburg, Kornwestheim, Möglingen, Markgröningen, Asperg, Tamm, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Ingersheim, Pleidelsheim und Freiberg a.N. besteht." So the zone is not Ludwigsburg with a margin; it is a contiguous area stretching from Kornwestheim in the south to Pleidelsheim and Freiberg am Neckar in the north, and out west to Markgröningen.
It was assembled rather than invented.
Three Umweltzonen already existed inside this footprint — Ludwigsburg itself, Markgröningen, and the joint zone of Pleidelsheim–Ingersheim–Freiberg a.N. — and the plan is explicit that they survive inside the new one: "Die bereits in den Luftreinhalteplänen Markgröningen und Pleidelsheim - Ingersheim - Freiberg a.N. festgeschriebenen Umweltzonen der Stufe 3 behalten ihre Geltung und werden in die regionale Umweltzone „Ludwigsburg und Umgebung" eingebunden." Bietigheim-Bissingen and Asperg are the two that had never been in an Umweltzone before, which the plan notes drew an objection from the chamber of commerce.
Two boundaries worth knowing because the plan itself discusses them. In the east the L1100 now runs through the zone inside Ludwigsburg's city area, which the plan says relieves Remseck am Neckar and Marbach am Neckar — those two are next to the zone, not in it.
In the south-west the B10 stays outside it, and the plan expects long-distance traffic to keep using it rather than diverting through Schwieberdingen or Korntal-Münchingen.
Municipalities that asked to be included were turned down for this designation. ⚠️ Benningen am Neckar, Marbach am Neckar and Remseck am Neckar are named in the plan as neighbours worried about displaced traffic — they are named as being outside, and this record does not add them. The zone is signed on the ground with the standard German Umweltzone signs under the Straßenverkehrsordnung.
Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart — Teilplan Ludwigsburg, Maßnahmenband (2012), measure M 1 and its discussion in chapter 3, for the list of the ten municipalities, the absorption of the three earlier Umweltzonen, the position of the L1100 and the B10, and the municipalities recorded as outside the zone
The authority's own map: Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart
A green Umweltplakette, and nothing beyond it. There is no second question here: the plan bans pollutant groups 1, 2 and 3 and leaves group 4 free, and the Land states the present-day position for every Umweltzone in Baden-Württemberg — "Für alle Umweltzonen in Baden-Württemberg gilt inzwischen, dass nur noch Fahrzeuge mit einer grünen Plakette in ihnen fahren dürfen" — and that red and yellow are banned as well.
What the sticker maps to in Euro terms is set federally in the 35. BImSchV, and this corpus holds that separately as Germany's national requirement rather than restating it per city. Two points from the Land's own guidance catch people out and apply here exactly as they do in Stuttgart.
A petrol car with a regulated catalytic converter gets the green sticker on emissions key numbers 01, 02 and 77, and in Baden-Württemberg also on 03 by ministerial decree, while 04, 09 and 11 need an individual exemption.
And an electric car is not exempt from the sticker: "Um eine Umweltzone befahren zu dürfen, benötigen alle Fahrzeuge, auch Elektrofahrzeuge eine grüne Umweltplakette." Natural-gas vehicles are treated as petrol. Motorcycles, three-wheelers, working machines and agricultural tractors need no sticker at all.
Ministerium für Verkehr Baden-Württemberg — "Umweltzonen: Das leisten sie im Land", the Land's own guidance for every Umweltzone in Baden-Württemberg, for the green-sticker-only rule, the exclusion of red and yellow, the key numbers and the vehicle classes that need no sticker. The threshold itself is set by the Regierungspräsidium's Teilplan Ludwigsburg, measure M 1, and the statement that electric vehicles also need the sticker is the Land's, from its press release of 17 February 2022; both are listed in this record's sources
The same green Umweltplakette, and — this is the difference from Stuttgart that matters most on a route through Baden-Württemberg — nothing on top of it. No source read for this record states a diesel ban in the regional zone Ludwigsburg und Umgebung. The plan's measure is the sticker stage, the Land's page states the sticker rule for the Land as a whole, and the 3.
Fortschreibung of 2022 adds inflow control, a speed limit, filter columns, bus lanes and parking management on the Schlossstraße — traffic measures, not a diesel threshold.
So a diesel that carries the green sticker may drive here, including a Euro 4 diesel that would be turned away 15 kilometres south in Stuttgart, where a separate zonal ban reaches Euro 4/IV and worse across the whole city and Euro 5/V and worse in the middle of it. ⚠️ That asymmetry is the trap on this corridor, and it runs in one direction only: satisfying Ludwigsburg does not satisfy Stuttgart.
It is recorded here as the absence of a further rule rather than as a permission, because the publishers state the sticker and stop; if the Regierungspräsidium adds a diesel measure in a later Fortschreibung, this field is where it will show, and the plan index is watched for exactly that.
Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart — Luftreinhalteplan für den Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart, Teilplan Ludwigsburg, 3. Fortschreibung (2022), the most recent plan for this zone, which restates the sticker stages of 2008, 2012 and 2013 and sets out the measures now in force — none of which is a diesel threshold. The green-sticker requirement itself is from the Land's guidance and from measure M 1 of the 2012 Maßnahmenband, both listed in this record's sources
Ministerium für Verkehr Baden-Württemberg — "Umweltzonen: Das leisten sie im Land". The Land states the fine for every Umweltzone in Baden-Württemberg, this one included: "Ein unberechtigter Aufenthalt in einer Umweltzone kann mit einem Bußgeld von 100 Euro geahndet werden." It is the federal Bußgeldkatalog figure for being in an Umweltzone without a valid sticker. No source read states a figure specific to Ludwigsburg, and none is invented here — the Land's statement is general to the Land on its face
Ministerium für Verkehr Baden-Württemberg — "Umweltzonen: Das leisten sie im Land" for the sticker rule, the price range, the vehicle classes that need no sticker, the exclusion of red and yellow since 2015 and the fine; the Land's press release of 17 February 2022 for electric vehicles needing the sticker; the Regierungspräsidium's Teilplan Ludwigsburg, measure M 1, for the ten municipalities, the Ausnahmekonzept and the surviving lorry bans in Markgröningen and Pleidelsheim–Ingersheim–Freiberg a.N.; and the Regierungspräsidium's plan index for which Umweltzonen in the district still exist. All are listed in this record's sources
Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart — Fortschreibung des Luftreinhalteplans für den Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart, Teilplan Ludwigsburg, Maßnahmenband (2012), 32 pages. The act that created the regional zone and the only document read that names its members. Measure M 1 sets a year-round ban on pollutant groups 1, 2 and 3 from 1 January 2013 with green-sticker vehicles free; names Ludwigsburg, Kornwestheim, Möglingen, Markgröningen, Asperg, Tamm, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Ingersheim, Pleidelsheim and Freiberg a.N. as the member municipalities; records that the earlier Umweltzonen in Markgröningen and in Pleidelsheim–Ingersheim–Freiberg a.N. keep their validity inside it and that their Lkw-Durchfahrtsverbote remain; states the earlier stages in Ludwigsburg itself (stage 1 on 1 March 2008, stage 2 on 1 January 2012); and sets out which neighbouring municipalities are outside and why. ✅ Machine-watched. The watched strings are short fragments rather than the full sentence, because the extractor inserts a space at a fixed column — "Bieti gheim-Bissingen", "Kommune n" — so a long quotation will not match while the fragments around those seams will
Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart — Luftreinhalteplan für den Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart, Teilplan Ludwigsburg, 3. Fortschreibung (2022), 61 pages. The most recent plan for this zone, and the (bbb) test for whether a published measure is still the rule in force. It restates the three sticker stages in the past tense as history — 1 March 2008, 1 January 2012 and the regional stage 3 on 1 January 2013 — and its own measures are M 1 inflow control at the Schlossstraße, M 2 a speed reduction, M 3 filter columns, M 4 bus lanes and M 5 parking management. ✅ Read for what it does NOT contain, which is the more useful half here: the word "aufgehoben" does not appear anywhere in it, and it sets no diesel threshold
Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart — Öffentliche Bekanntmachung of the 3. Fortschreibung, Stuttgart, May 2022, one page. The formal public notice under § 47 Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz: it lists the five measures of the current plan and states where and when the plan could be inspected, at the Rathausinformation in Ludwigsburg and at the Regierungspräsidium. Held as the dated, citable act that puts the current plan into the world, separately from the plan itself
Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart — "Luftreinhalteplanung im Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart", the issuing authority's present-tense index of its own plans. The source for this zone still existing: it records the abolition of the Umweltzonen in Wendlingen am Neckar, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Ilsfeld and Urbach on 1 May 2023 and of those in Heidenheim, Heilbronn, Herrenberg and the Leonberg/Hemmingen area on 1 January 2024, and states that only Ludwigsburg und Umgebung and Stuttgart remain. It also lists every Fortschreibung for Ludwigsburg, the latest of which is the third — there is no fourth and no plan abolishing this zone
Ministerium für Verkehr Baden-Württemberg — "Umweltzonen: Das leisten sie im Land", the Land's guidance page for every Umweltzone in Baden-Württemberg, with a long FAQ. The source for the rule applying Land-wide in the present tense, that red and yellow have been barred since 2015, the key numbers for petrol cars with a catalytic converter and the Baden-Württemberg decree on key number 03, the 6-to-15-euro price range, the vehicle classes the sticker obligation does and does not reach, the exemptions for severely disabled people, and the 100-euro fine
Ministerium für Verkehr Baden-Württemberg — press release "Luftreinhaltung: Umweltzonen haben die Luftqualität wesentlich verbessert" of 17 February 2022. Cited for one sentence that no other source read states as clearly, and that catches drivers of the newest cars: "Um eine Umweltzone befahren zu dürfen, benötigen alle Fahrzeuge, auch Elektrofahrzeuge eine grüne Umweltplakette." It also records the Land's policy of withdrawing Umweltzonen where they are no longer needed while keeping them where limits are only just met, which is the policy under which this zone survived and eight others did not
Next scheduled re-check: 2027-03-18.
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