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Vaduz has one driving restriction on our books: the Fussgängerzone im Vaduzer Städtle — Signal 2.59.3, Art. 22c… (limited traffic zone). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-17, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2027-09-17.
The Städtle, the short central street of Vaduz that carries the Rathaus, the Kunstmuseum and the Landtag, is a Fussgängerzone — a pedestrian zone — and the Gemeinde Vaduz states the one thing about it a driver actually needs: goods handling may be driven in from Monday to Saturday between 06.00 and 10.00 without a permit, and driving in after 10.00 in the morning requires a Fahrbewilligung, which costs CHF 10.00 a day for a car and CHF 20.00 for a lorry and is issued by the Gemeindepolizei.
Everything else in this record is national law, and that split is the point.
Liechtenstein's eleven Gemeinden do make binding rules of their own — article 9 of the Gemeindegesetz lets them set rights and duties in a Gemeindeordnung and order particular subject areas by Reglement, and article 10 lets them declare breaches of local police rules punishable with fines up to CHF 10,000 — but a pedestrian zone is not one of those rules.
Article 2 of the Strassenverkehrsgesetz puts driving bans, traffic restrictions and traffic orders FOR ALL ROADS with the Regierung, and article 97 of the Strassensignalisationsverordnung says who then issues them: local traffic orders shown by a prescriptive signal are to be decreed by the Amt für Tiefbau und Geoinformation and published with an appeal instruction. The Gemeinde's part is downstream of that.
Article 94 makes it responsible for putting up and taking down the signals on Gemeindestrassen and article 95 for supervising them, and article 107 of the Strassenverkehrsgesetz lets the Regierung delegate exemption permits for roads under a driving ban to the Gemeindevorsteher — which is exactly the CHF 10 permit the Gemeindepolizei Vaduz sells. So the zone is a national order signposted and policed locally.
What the sign means is set out in article 22c of the Strassensignalisationsverordnung, inserted in 2003: a Fussgängerzone is reserved for pedestrians and users of vehicle-like devices; where limited vehicle traffic is exceptionally permitted, it may go no faster than walking pace and pedestrians have priority; and parking is allowed only where signals or markings say so.
Article 2a adds that a zone runs from its entry sign to the matching end sign, that it is only permissible on side streets of broadly uniform character, and that a zone sign may carry at most three traffic orders. One thing this record cannot tell you is when the Vaduz zone itself was ordered.
The order is an administrative decree of a national office, not an act in the Landesgesetzblatt, and the office's own estate at llv.li answers a Cloudflare interstitial to an honestly identified reader, so the dated document was not read and no date is claimed for it.