Soundproof screen

Noise or noise protection screens are intended to reduce the leisure noise caused by outdoor catering for the residents who live above the catering establishments. The naming is inconsistent. For example, the Hamburg-Altona district assembly prefers the term “noise protection screen”, while the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health prefers the term “noise protection screen”.

Soundproofing screens differ from normal sunshades in that they are made of multi-layered materials that absorb sound and thus reduce noise by up to eight decibels.

For Hamburg restaurateurs, the use of umbrellas that reduce the noise level has been mandatory since 2012. The regulation was confirmed again by the Hamburg district office in 2013. It had criticism and a. given that when the ordinance came into force there were no soundproofing screens with TÜV approval, and that the residents are only inadequately protected from noise because other sources of noise are not effectively combated.

Web links

Noise protection screens remain mandatory. Die Welt, May 7, 2013
Noise Action Plan Hamburg 2013 (Level 2) Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Authority for Urban Development and Environment, July 4, 2013 (creation date of the file)

Individual evidence

↑ Notification printed matter (PDF file); Printed matter no. XIX-1332.3 (public). Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg - Altona District Assembly December 18, 2012.
^ Rainer Schach, Jens Otto: Guide of the construction company and the construction industry - construction site equipment. Fritz Berner and Bernd Kochendörfer (eds.), BG Teubner Verlag / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden 2008 ( table of contents and foreword online ). Note: The authors refer to a research project carried out by the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (www.baua.de).
↑ Ellen Draxel: Soundproofing Experiment in the Café - Abgeschirmt in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 30, 2011, accessed on April 27, 2015.
↑ Soundproof screens are now mandatory in the ski jump. Hamburger Abendblatt, August 16, 2011.

[1] Notification printed matter (PDF file); Printed matter no. XIX-1332.3 (public). Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg - Altona District Assembly December 18, 2012.

[2] Rainer Schach, Jens Otto: Guide of the construction company and the construction industry - construction site equipment. Fritz Berner and Bernd Kochendörfer (eds.), BG Teubner Verlag / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden 2008 ( table of contents and foreword online ). Note: The authors refer to a research project carried out by the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (www.baua.de).

[3] Ellen Draxel: Soundproofing Experiment in the Café - Abgeschirmt in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 30, 2011, accessed on April 27, 2015.

[4] Soundproof screens are now mandatory in the ski jump. Hamburger Abendblatt, August 16, 2011.