Street Lighting; Reporting Malfunctioning Streetlights
To maintain public safety and order within built-up areas, municipalities must provide street lighting in accordance with their financial capacity (...), if this is urgently necessary and no other entity is required to do so under other legal provisions.
Status: 03.08.2026. Link zum BayernPortal
Online Procedures
Street Lighting; Report a Broken Streetlight
You can use this online form to report broken streetlights.
Convenient and digital: Simply fill out this online form directly in your web browser. In many cases, this saves you a trip to city hall.
Since other parties are only required to provide lighting in specific cases, street lighting is generally provided by the municipalities. In this case, the municipality’s obligation applies to all public streets located within the built-up area, including sections of federal highways that pass through the town.
Lighting in traffic areas is intended to enable road users—especially pedestrians—to easily and promptly recognize the course and boundaries of streets, paths, squares, and access points, as well as hazardous areas and obstacles.However, it is not possible to establish a general rule regarding the scope and duration of street lighting. The extent of the obligation to provide lighting depends on local needs and other local conditions, particularly the importance of the respective street for traffic, but also on the size of the municipality and its financial capacity. The location of the respective street within the municipal area also plays a role. Against this backdrop, turning off street lighting for certain hours at night may be considered on a case-by-case basis. In such cases, municipalities must mark streetlights within built-up areas that are not lit all night with a red ring.
Municipalities would appreciate it if you reported any defective streetlights.
Section 51 of the Bavarian Roads and Paths Act (BayStrWG)
Civil engineering office
Head of office: Andreas Pfeil
The Civil Engineering Department of the City of Erlangen is responsible for the planning, construction, operation, maintenance and management of publicly dedicated traffic areas with the associated structures, other traffic facilities and traffic installations including lighting, traffic lights and other traffic infrastructure.Anschrift
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