Stuttgart, Germany · Heavy vehicle ban
Official name Lkw-Durchfahrtsverbot Stuttgart, Ostfildern und Umgebung — Maßnahme M 1 des Luftreinhalte-/Aktionsplans für den Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart, Teilplan Stuttgart
In force in Stuttgart right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:03 · Europe/Berlin
There is no timetable to read here, and that is the finding rather than a gap in ours. The plan states the measure as ganzjährig and unbefristet, and neither publisher attaches an hour, a weekday or a season to it.
Whether it reaches you is decided by your journey, not by the clock. Delivery traffic — loading or unloading inside the zone, tradespeople working in it, driving-school journeys, a firm based inside it, and the empty run back to base afterwards — is outside the ban at every hour. Mere through traffic is inside it at every hour.
It is also decided by the vehicle, and every car, van and hire vehicle at or below 3.5 tonnes is outside this rule entirely, at any hour. A motorhome registered as a Pkw is not affected; one registered as a lorry over 3.5 tonnes is.
This encoding cannot see which road you are on, and in Stuttgart one road decides the case: the B 10 stays open for through traffic across the whole city, with its branches on to the B 14 towards Waiblingen and the B 27/B 27a towards Kornwestheim. A through journey confined to those is not caught even though it crosses the zone on a map.
Nor can it see the federal bans that apply to the same vehicle on top of this one — Sundays and public holidays from 00:00 to 22:00 under § 30 StVO, and Saturdays from 07:00 to 20:00 in July and August on named routes under the Ferienreiseverordnung. Those are national, are not encoded in this record, and are not suspended by anything Stuttgart does.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
A lorry may not drive through Stuttgart. It may drive into Stuttgart, unload, and drive out again — but it may not use the city as a shortcut, and it has not been allowed to since 1 March 2010.
The rule is measure M 1 of the Luftreinhalte- und Aktionsplan, it catches every goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes permissible gross weight, and the City puts the test in one sentence: "Verboten ist dagegen die bloße Durchfahrt durch diese Zone, um etwa ein außerhalb der Zone liegendes Fahrtziel auf kürzerem Wege und schneller zu erreichen." What decides your case is therefore not the vehicle's exhaust and not the hour of the day but where your journey ends.
Three things make this rule unlike the Umweltzone in the same city. First, it is bigger than Stuttgart: the plan that created it defines the Plangebiet as the city area "erweitert um die Stadtgebiete Gerlingen, Korntal, Ostfildern und das Gebiet bis zur B313 im Osten", so a lorry driver is inside it in four municipalities and in open country east of Ostfildern.
Second, the Land states plainly that it has nothing to do with the sticker — "Die Fahrverbote gelten für alle Lastwagen – unabhängig von ihrer jeweiligen Feinstaubplakette" — although a lorry that is legitimately delivering inside Stuttgart itself still needs the green Umweltplakette, because the Umweltzone is a separate rule that happens to cover the same ground.
Third, and this is rare in this corpus: there is no way to apply out of it. The City writes that "im Gegensatz zum Fahrverbot in der Umweltzone … werden vom Lkw-Durchfahrtsverbot keine Ausnahmen genehmigt" — no exemptions are granted at all, to anyone, so the answer for a through journey is to go round. Going round is provided for.
The zone is drawn so that through traffic runs on the A81 to the west, the A8 to the south, the B313 to the east and the B10 to the north, and the B10 itself stays open right across Stuttgart because the city has no capable north-east bypass. Delivery traffic needs no permit, no application and no certificate; if the police stop you, you show a delivery note or an order.
Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart — "Lkw-Durchfahrtsverbot", the City's own operative page for the ban. It states the weight threshold, the start date, the legal home of the rule as Maßnahme M 1 of the Luftreinhalte- und Aktionsplan, the roads that bound the zone, what counts as delivery traffic, that no exemptions at all are granted, that the B 10 stays open across the city, and how the rule treats a motorhome
Nothing is charged and there is nothing to buy.
This is a prohibition on a kind of journey, not a toll on entering an area: the City neither prices the through journey nor sells a way past it, and the Land states that no permit is needed for the journeys that are allowed — "Eine spezielle Genehmigung zur Fahrt innerhalb der Lkw-Verbotszonen muss nicht beantragt werden." Nor is there a fee for a document, because no document is issued: the City says it deliberately issues no certificates to delivery traffic "im Interesse einer unbürokratischen Handhabung", and a delivery note or order shown to the police does the same job for free.
One cost sits next to this rule without being part of it: a lorry that is legitimately delivering inside Stuttgart's own city area also needs the green Umweltplakette, which costs 6 euros in Stuttgart. That is the Umweltzone's charge, recorded in this corpus under de-stuttgart-umweltzone, and it is not a charge for this ban.
All day, every day, all year. The plan that created the measure calls it a "Ganzjähriges Lkw-Durchfahrtsverbot" and adds "Die Maßnahme ist unbefristet" — year-round and open-ended — and neither the City's page nor the Land's states any hour, weekday or season.
That is a real finding rather than a gap, because several German lorry restrictions are timetables and this one deliberately is not: the federal Sunday and holiday ban under § 30 StVO runs 00:00 to 22:00 on named days and the Ferienreiseverordnung runs Saturdays in July and August, while Stuttgart's ban runs whenever you are driving.
The two stack: a lorry crossing Stuttgart on a Tuesday afternoon meets only this rule, and on a Sunday morning it meets this one and the federal one as well. Nothing here turns on the clock. What it turns on is the journey — whether you are passing through or delivering — and, for the additional sticker requirement inside Stuttgart itself, on the vehicle.
Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart — Luftreinhalte-/Aktionsplan für den Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart, Teilplan Stuttgart, Maßnahmenband (2010), measure M 1, which states the ban as ganzjährig from 1 March 2010 and as unbefristet. The City's own page states no hours either; its description is a standing condition on the journey, not a timetable
Larger than Stuttgart, and the City's own page does not say how much larger.
It calls the area "Die Durchfahrtsverbotszone in Stuttgart, Ostfildern und Umgebung" and describes its edges: "Die Verbotszone wird im wesentlichen von den Autobahnen A 8 und A 81, der nördlichen und östlichen Stadtgrenze von Stuttgart bis zur B 14 sowie den Bundesstraßen B 10 und B 313 begrenzt." The "und Umgebung" is resolved by the authority that drew it.
The Regierungspräsidium's Maßnahmenband defines measure M 1 as a ban "im Stadtgebiet Stuttgart - erweitert um die Stadtgebiete Gerlingen, Korntal, Ostfildern und das Gebiet bis zur B313 im Osten", and sets it out again in prose: "Es umfasst neben dem Stadtgebiet Stuttgart zusätzlich das Stadtgebiet Ostfildern und das Gebiet bis zur B313 zwischen dem Kreuz Wendlingen (A8) und dem Dreieck Plochingen (B10).
Im Westen wurden noch Gerlingen und Korntal ins Plangebiet aufgenommen." So four municipalities are named — Stuttgart, Gerlingen, Korntal and Ostfildern — plus a strip of the Filder east of Ostfildern out to the B 313, whose municipalities the plan does not name and which this record therefore does not name either.
The plan also says why the area is not simply the city: modelling the ban for Stuttgart alone pushed unacceptable lorry volumes through the Ortsdurchfahrt of Ostfildern-Nellingen, so the boundary was moved out twice until the traffic had somewhere to go. The intended through route is the ring the plan describes: "die A81 im Westen, der A8 im Süden, der B313 im Osten und der B10 im Norden (Ring Stuttgart)".
Inside the zone, three roads are excluded so that Stuttgart stays crossable: the plan exempts "in Stuttgart die B10 mit den Abzweigen B14 Richtung Waiblingen und B27/B27a Richtung Kornwestheim", and the City explains the reason — "Die B 10 bleibt zur Durchfahrt durch Stuttgart in ganzer Länge offen, weil Stuttgart keine leistungsfähige Nord-Ost-Umfahrung hat." The zone is signed on the ground with Wegweisertafeln and Verkehrszeichen. ⚠️ Do not read this boundary as the Umweltzone's.
They are different shapes with different questions: the Umweltzone is exactly the Stuttgart city area and asks about the sticker and the Euro class, while this zone spills into three neighbouring municipalities and asks where your journey ends.
Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart — "Lkw-Durchfahrtsverbot", for the bounding roads, the B 10 staying open and the phrase "Stuttgart, Ostfildern und Umgebung". The municipalities that "und Umgebung" stands for are quoted from the authority that drew the zone: the Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart's Maßnahmenband for the Teilplan Stuttgart, measure M 1 and its description in section 3, listed in this record's sources
The authority's own map: Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart, Stadtmessungsamt — GeoPortal Stuttgart…
There is no emission standard in this rule, and the Land says so rather than leaving it to be inferred: "Die Fahrverbote gelten für alle Lastwagen – unabhängig von ihrer jeweiligen Feinstaubplakette." A brand-new Euro VI lorry and a twenty-year-old one are treated identically — neither may drive through, and no exhaust class buys a through journey.
The City puts the same point from the other end: the prohibition on mere through traffic "gilt auch für Lkws mit gültiger Umwelt-Plakette". Note also that petrol is the wrong axis here in a second way: this rule is about goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes, where a petrol engine is rare, and about the journey rather than the engine.
What does depend on emissions in the same place is the Umweltzone, a separate rule covering the Stuttgart city area, and this corpus holds it separately as de-stuttgart-umweltzone.
Not applicable, for the same reason as the petrol standard: the ban is keyed to weight and to the journey, never to the engine. But there is a second rule on the same ground that a lorry driver must not miss, and the two are easy to confuse because both are about air quality in Stuttgart.
A lorry that is legitimately delivering — and therefore outside this ban — still has to satisfy the Umweltzone if it is inside Stuttgart's own city area: the City's condition is that delivery lorries may enter and leave "und die - soweit sie auch im Stadtgebiet Stuttgart fahren - eine grüne Umwelt-Plakette haben", and the Land states the general form of it, that where a Verbotszone lies inside an Umweltzone the Umweltzone's restrictions apply as well.
Stuttgart's Umweltzone additionally bans diesel below Euro 5/V across the city and below Euro 6/VI in the kleine Umweltzone. Those thresholds belong to that record, de-stuttgart-umweltzone, and are not restated as this ban's own — they also do not reach Gerlingen, Korntal, Ostfildern or the eastern strip, which are inside this zone but outside the Umweltzone.
No amount is published by either authority for this ban, and none is carried across from the rule next door. The City's page sets out the prohibition, the exemptions and how the police check it, and states no fine; the Land's page does the same.
The Umweltzone in the same city does state one — 100 euros, 128.50 euros with fees — but that is the penalty for being in an Umweltzone without a valid sticker under the Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz, a different offence with a different legal basis, and putting it here would be inventing a figure by moving it.
This ban is signed traffic regulation, so the amount would come from the federal Bußgeldkatalog for disobeying the prohibition sign; identifying which numbered item in that catalogue applies to this signage would be our inference about which sign Stuttgart used, not a statement either publisher has made, and this corpus does not publish that kind of reasoning as a fact.
Recorded as not stated rather than as unknown: both publishers were read on 18 September 2026 and neither names a sum.
Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart — "Lkw-Durchfahrtsverbot", for the through-traffic test, the delivery exemption and what counts as it, the refusal of all exemptions, the absence of certificates, the treatment of motorhomes, the B 10 staying open and the signage; the Ministerium für Verkehr Baden-Württemberg's "Lkw-Durchfahrtsverbote in Baden-Württemberg" for the statement that no permit is needed, that the sticker is irrelevant to this ban, that an Umweltzone's restrictions apply on top where the two overlap, and for the list of the seven places; the Regierungspräsidium's Maßnahmenband for the named municipalities and the ring of roads; and the City's "Lkw-Empfehlungsnetz" page for the recommended-route map. All are listed in this record's sources
Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart — "Lkw-Durchfahrtsverbot", Stand 26 June 2020. The City's operative page for this ban and the primary source for this record: the 3.5-tonne threshold, the start date of 1 March 2010, the identification of the rule as Maßnahme M 1 of the Luftreinhalte- und Aktionsplan, the roads bounding the zone, the phrase "Stuttgart, Ostfildern und Umgebung", the B 10 staying open across the city, what counts as delivery traffic and the empty return journey, the absence of any certificate, the additional green-sticker condition inside Stuttgart, the treatment of motorhomes, and the statement that no exemptions at all are granted
Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart — Luftreinhalte-/Aktionsplan für den Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart, Teilplan Stuttgart, Maßnahmenband (2010), 52 pages. The act that created the ban, published by the authority that drew it rather than by the city that implements it, and the only document read that resolves the City's "und Umgebung": measure M 1 is a "Ganzjähriges Lkw-Durchfahrtsverbot (ab 3,5 t; Lieferverkehr frei) im Stadtgebiet Stuttgart - erweitert um die Stadtgebiete Gerlingen, Korntal, Ostfildern und das Gebiet bis zur B313 im Osten - ab dem 01.03.2010", it is stated to be unbefristet, the eastern strip runs to the B 313 between the Kreuz Wendlingen and the Dreieck Plochingen, the intended through route is the A 81 / A 8 / B 313 / B 10 ring, and the plan records why the area had to be widened twice. It also measures the scheme: about 60,000 lorries over 3.5 tonnes use the Stuttgart city area on a working day, about 3,100 of them merely pass through, and those 5 per cent are what the ban addresses. ✅ Machine-watched, and getting there is the cycle's other finding: the authoring pre-flight first reported every candidate string missing from this file, because it decoded a PDF as though it were a page. The monitor does not — it reads the content streams — and when asked directly it found both strings at once. The list below is short and unbroken on purpose: a sentence that spans a line break in the typeset page is split by the extractor and will not match, which is what happens to longer quotations from this same document
Ministerium für Verkehr Baden-Württemberg — "Lkw-Durchfahrtsverbote in Baden-Württemberg", the Land's own page for this class of rule, listing the places that have one (Stand: Mai 2023). The source for three statements the City's page does not make: that the bans apply to every lorry irrespective of its Feinstaubplakette, that no special permit has to be applied for, and that where a Verbotszone lies inside an Umweltzone the Umweltzone's restrictions apply in addition. It also names the seven places — Leonberg–Ditzingen, Markgröningen, Pleidelsheim/Ingersheim/Freiberg am Neckar, Remseck am Neckar (Ortsteil Hochberg), Reutlingen, Stuttgart and Ulm — and is explicit that they are separate bans whose exact areas have to be read from each city's pages and Luftreinhalteplan, which is why this record does not merge them. ⚠️ Its Stand is May 2023 and the Regierungspräsidium abolished Umweltzonen in four of its district's towns in 2023 and four more in 2024; an abolished Umweltzone does not imply an abolished lorry ban, and no such implication is drawn here
Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart — "Lkw-Empfehlungsnetz", Stand 7 June 2022. The City's recommended lorry network, developed with the University of Stuttgart in an EU-funded project. Held for two reasons: it is where the City itself sends a lorry driver who has to get somewhere, and its map is the only current, city-published picture of this zone — "In der Lkw-Empfehlungskarte sind auch die Zonen des Lkw-Durchfahrtsverbots gekennzeichnet". The same map carries the dangerous-goods restrictions, which are a third rule this record does not encode
Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart — "Luftreinhalteplanung im Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart", the issuing authority's present-tense index of its own plans. Held here as the index that lists every Stuttgart Teilplan and Fortschreibung, including the 2010 Maßnahmenband this record is built on and the "Bereich Stuttgart" map of the ban zone. Read on 18 September 2026: it publishes no plan abolishing or amending the Lkw-Durchfahrtsverbot, and the most recent Stuttgart plan on it is the 5. Fortschreibung of 2020
Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart — Luftreinhalteplan für den Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart, Teilplan Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart, 5. Fortschreibung (2020), 51 pages. Held for one sentence, and it is the one the (bbb) recipe exists to find: ten years after the ban began, the authority that issued it writes in the present tense, while explaining why its diesel measure could not be narrowed, that "bereits ein „Lkw-Durchfahrtsverbot" für Stuttgart besteht und der Lieferverkehr von der Maßnahme M1 befreit ist". That is the issuing authority confirming its own 2010 measure was still in force in 2020, from a document whose subject is something else. ⚠️ The sentence itself cannot be watched — it spans line breaks in the typeset page, and the extractor splits it — so what is watched here are three short unbroken fragments that place the document: if the Regierungspräsidium replaces this file, they go with it. The confirming sentence is re-read by hand
Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart, Stadtmessungsamt — GeoPortal Stuttgart, Nutzungsbedingungen, Stand 5 February 2024. The licence that decides whether this corpus may hold the zone's geometry, quoted in this record's boundary_coverage. It states that the City's data, maps and geo-services are not freely usable as open data, that use is free of charge only for non-commercial purposes, and that commercial use, other purposes and publication require a direct approach to the Stadtmessungsamt
Next scheduled re-check: 2027-03-18.
A city can run more than one scheme, and they do not always answer the same question.
This is owed on the country's roads, not inside this scheme. What Germany asks, with the source