ᐅ House Number Photo Thread – What Kind Do You Have?

haydee schrieb:

I don’t think there are any regulations here. Before the last ambulance came, I almost threw myself out of the way. It was speeding down the hill. They even missed the HVO vehicle.
It makes sense that a clearly visible house number is helpful.
Ours is made of black metal.
HVO comes from right within the town, so they don’t need the number.

There is NOTHING that is unregulated here—this is covered in the building code §126, with a note that regional laws may specialize these rules, often with fines for non-compliance.
Of course, such a minor detail is not always on every municipality’s radar, but if you research it, you will eventually find it, just like the potato sack law or the vineyard snail regulation.
Of course, you will almost never need it, but maybe it can help at some point—if it allows emergency services to find a neighboring building more quickly, or if a delivery service (or home care service, etc.) appreciates better orientation within the street.
It’s solely about the (potential) purpose of faster orientation, so I would do it regardless of the law—based on my own experiences alone—with or without any extras, it doesn’t matter.
Also, it can be helpful for homeowners themselves if they come home late and tipsy and all the houses look almost the same in the residential area.

pagoni2020 schrieb:

There is NOTHING that isn’t regulated here ... once you start researching, you will eventually find it.

Then try using the Geobasis.NI viewer to look up Hilgermissen. At that point, even an illuminated house number won’t help you find a house. I had a similar experience in Bavaria, although I’ve forgotten the name of the village, which was even larger than Hilgermissen. Without Annelies, I probably wouldn’t have found the construction site for over an hour. In North Rhine-Westphalia, there is definitely no statewide regulation regarding house numbers.

Escroda schrieb:

Then take a look at Hilgermissen using the Geobasis.NI Viewer. Even an illuminated house number won’t help to find a house there. I had a similar experience in Bavaria, although I forgot the name of that village, which was even bigger than Hilgermissen. Without Annelies, I probably wouldn’t have found the construction site until after an hour.

I can easily imagine that; where we currently live, I sometimes feel like you wouldn’t even be able to find the locality.
That’s why I still prefer traditional methods like asking for directions in many cases.
The issue of house numbers is not exactly a major breakthrough, so it’s rarely discussed and not always well known even among some authorities given the thousands of regulations.

Escroda schrieb:

In North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), there is no statewide regulation on house numbers.

Then the federal law §126 of the Building Code applies. As someone not from NRW, I just looked it up; there are even court cases and rulings regarding such issues... oh dear... in NRW, besides the Building Code, they apparently also refer to §14 of the Public Order Act (Ordnungsbehördengesetz, OBG), which seems to be some kind of general law in NRW, similar to the now unfortunately repealed paragraph called “Groben Unfug” (roughly “gross misconduct”).

hausnrplus25 schrieb:

#wearesomewhatofftopic

Just let them... keep going

tumaa schrieb:

Let them... keep going

Sorry, but your question was

tumaa schrieb:

what else should I pay attention to?

and @Pinky0301 specified it further

Pinky0301 schrieb:

Where is it regulated how my house number should look?

Since it is important to follow regulations, I don’t think the references to legal requirements are off topic at all.

pagoni2020 schrieb:

Then the federal law §126 of the Building Code applies

Well, that could be clearer. It just states that you have to display one and who is responsible. The building regulations are equally vague. Even within municipalities, there are more or less clearly defined rules, sometimes in statutes and sometimes in internal guidelines. I find it remarkable that in Germany the system and design for the most important organizational criterion for locating the smallest administrative unit is left open, resulting in a variety of different rules—from odd/even, right/left, running numbers, alternating, letters, fractions, hyphens, lighting, color, size, to the anarchy already mentioned in #46—i.e., simply assigning the next house number to the next completed house in the village regardless of location. Okay, that is also a rule, albeit a pointless one.

Pinky0301 schrieb:

As far as I know, emergency responders also have access to property maps and similar data.

Everyone has to manage their own expectations for stroke rehabilitation (being able to walk but maybe slurring speech?). An ambulance won’t bring any colder pizza in the worst case.

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