Residents free: “If I have a request”

This car error about the additional sign “Anlieger frei” is one of the most common in the traffic realm: Anlieger does not mean someone who has a concern, but someone whose property is adjacent to the street!

The text of the law explains to residents as follows:

[Anlieger sind Personen]who are the owners or beneficiaries of land or a building that faces a public road […] borders. (Wikipedia)

So it is primarily not for a cause or any reason, which you need to be allowed to drive on the road. On the other hand, visitors who have a valid reason actually have the right to drive on a “resident free” road. According to the text of the law, Wikipedia lists the following people who are allowed to drive into a resident’s free street:

• every – even unwanted – visitor of a resident
• the one who wants to pick up a resident or a visitor of the resident
• the one who just wants to pick up a person in the street and drives on straight away because that person is not there or
• the one who wants to reach a machine in the restricted zone. (Wikipedia)

So it’s true that you can drive in with a request – nevertheless, “Anlieger frei” primarily refers to them People whose property is on the street applied. If you want to be on the safe side, you could, according to the law, give the reason for driving through that you did not meet the person in question.

The meaning of “residents free”?
A so-called service road is intended to calm the flow of traffic and mainly serve as access to the relevant properties. Unlike a private road, as explained above, it can be used by anyone who has a reason to visit a resident. So someone driving them must have some reason for visiting a property on the road, which is not the case with thoroughfares with heavy traffic.