Store opening hours; display of an individual shopping night on a working day
Owners of a sales outlet in Bavaria may open their store on four individually selectable working days per year for longer than 8 p.m. up to a maximum of midnight. The necessary notification must be submitted to the responsible municipality.
Stand: 18.08.2025. Link zum BayernPortal
Online procedure
Display of an open night on working days
With this online application, you can apply online for an open night on working days.
Citizen-friendly and digital: simply complete this online application directly via your internet browser. In many cases, this will save you a trip to the authorities.
Sales outlets may hold up to four individual open nights on weekdays from 8 p.m. to midnight at the latest. This requires notification to the responsible municipality. The municipality in which the sales outlet is located is responsible.
Points of sale are
- Stores of all kinds,
- stalls and other sales facilities if goods are permanently displayed for sale to the general public from a fixed location, as well as
- sales facilities of cooperatives.
On the following days, an individual open night is not possible:
- on a Sunday and on a public holiday;
- also not on Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Holy Saturday, the Day of Prayer and Repentance, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve and not on the day before Whitsunday, All Saints' Day, Remembrance Day and the Sunday of the Dead
You are the owner of a retail outlet in Bavaria and would like to organize an individual open shopping night on a weekday.
You can notify the competent authority of the planned opening informally, stating the day and the extended opening hours or - if available - using the online procedure or form provided.
The notification must be made at least two weeks before the planned opening.
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Department of Public Safety and Order
The Public Safety and Order Department is part of the Citizens' Office of the City of Erlangen and performs the various tasks of the regulatory authority.
- General regulatory matters
- Catering and commercial matters
- Events and special uses
- Home supervision / FQA
The road traffic authority is exclusively responsible for matters relating to road traffic (in particular road traffic regulations, road markings, parking spaces, stopping restrictions, access permits).
Contact: Road traffic and roadworks department
The City of Erlangen is not responsible for matters relating to parking tickets.
Please contact the Zweckverband Kommunale Verkehrsüberwachung für den Großraum Nürnberg.
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Telephone availability:
Monday: 08:00 - 16:00
Tuesday to Thursday: 08:00 - 15:30
Friday: 08:00 - 12:00