Additional characters
An additional sign (Germany) or an additional sign ( Austria, Switzerland) specifies the meaning of a traffic sign (Germany) or a signal (Switzerland) with which it is usually set up together.
Germany
The traffic sign "general danger point" is given concrete form by the additional signs. Here: Warning of a restricted clearance profile for the next 3 km.
In addition: speed limit to 10 km / h from the sign, the arrangement of which is automatically canceled after 3 km after leaving the danger zone
In addition: speed limit to 10 km / h from the sign, the arrangement of which is automatically canceled after 3 km after leaving the danger zone
In Germany, additional signs refer to the actual traffic sign directly above the additional sign .
Exceptions are the additional signs 1000-32 and 1048-19
, which must be affixed above the traffic sign in connection with the regulation signs 205
(give way) and 206
(stop, give way) .
The additional sign 1022-10 can also be set up for the clearance of left-hand cycle paths without an actual traffic sign.
Additional signs are summarized in 4 main groups according to the catalog of traffic signs (VzKat), part: 8:
- Group of general additional characters
- Group of "free" additional characters
- Group of additional restrictive characters
- Group of special additional characters
- Examples of historical German additional boards and signs
- Examples of additional signs according to the current traffic sign catalog
Comprehensive compilations
- Germany: additional symbol according to § 39 (from number 1000)
- Austria: § 54. Supplementary tables
- Switzerland and Liechtenstein: 5.xx Additional information on signals
Commons : International and German-language additional symbols - collection of images, videos and audio files
Remarks
- ↑ The original wording contains the phrase “as a rule”, but a ruling by the BVerwG in 2003 makes it clear that this rule always applies.
- ↑ Sections 2.1 and 3.2 of Appendix 2 to Section 41 Paragraph 1 of the StVO . In: Road Traffic Regulations . Retrieved April 8, 2019.