HGZT2025
2025-03-20 17:54:19
- #1
Hello everyone,
we have attached our semi-detached house in Fulda (Hessen) to an already existing, completed semi-detached house. We are currently at the shell stage and the windows are supposed to arrive in 3 weeks. So far, our property was undeveloped. Now our soon-to-be neighbor has approached us, saying that he would like to put up a fence between the semi-detached houses and has already spoken with the local landscaping contractor. He intends to fence his entire property and now wants to start soon so that the garden can be used in the summer.
He has approached me and said that it is common for neighbors of semi-detached houses to share the cost of the fence in the middle and would like to have a joint discussion with me and his landscaping contractor regarding the type and design of the fence. I can hardly imagine that he wants anything different in the middle than what he chooses for the rest of his property.
Honestly, I feel overwhelmed. I am in the shell construction phase and garden planning is still quite far away. To be honest, I neither have the time nor the financial capacity to also take care of garden planning now. One must consider that his house is somewhat elevated compared to ours, so terrace/level of the garden play a role.
In Hessen, there is apparently a fencing obligation upon request of the neighbor...
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According to the Hessian Neighbor Law, the owner of a developed or commercially used property is obliged at the request of the owner of the neighboring property to fence his property, as long as the boundary to the neighboring property is not occupied by a building. If both properties are developed or commercially used, the owners of both properties are mutually obligated to cooperate in the erection of the fence (§ 14 HNRG)"
But now the situation is that we do not want a fence at all, and if anything, rather a hedge or something similar, but no usual fence (which is also a possible fencing option in Hessen). I also wonder if the neighbor can really put us under pressure just because he wants to start NOW. Let him do whatever he wants on his property, and I also would never have thought to charge him for the cost of privacy screen or hedge that I would like.
Maybe someone in Hessen has already experienced something like this?
Thanks
we have attached our semi-detached house in Fulda (Hessen) to an already existing, completed semi-detached house. We are currently at the shell stage and the windows are supposed to arrive in 3 weeks. So far, our property was undeveloped. Now our soon-to-be neighbor has approached us, saying that he would like to put up a fence between the semi-detached houses and has already spoken with the local landscaping contractor. He intends to fence his entire property and now wants to start soon so that the garden can be used in the summer.
He has approached me and said that it is common for neighbors of semi-detached houses to share the cost of the fence in the middle and would like to have a joint discussion with me and his landscaping contractor regarding the type and design of the fence. I can hardly imagine that he wants anything different in the middle than what he chooses for the rest of his property.
Honestly, I feel overwhelmed. I am in the shell construction phase and garden planning is still quite far away. To be honest, I neither have the time nor the financial capacity to also take care of garden planning now. One must consider that his house is somewhat elevated compared to ours, so terrace/level of the garden play a role.
In Hessen, there is apparently a fencing obligation upon request of the neighbor...
"
According to the Hessian Neighbor Law, the owner of a developed or commercially used property is obliged at the request of the owner of the neighboring property to fence his property, as long as the boundary to the neighboring property is not occupied by a building. If both properties are developed or commercially used, the owners of both properties are mutually obligated to cooperate in the erection of the fence (§ 14 HNRG)"
But now the situation is that we do not want a fence at all, and if anything, rather a hedge or something similar, but no usual fence (which is also a possible fencing option in Hessen). I also wonder if the neighbor can really put us under pressure just because he wants to start NOW. Let him do whatever he wants on his property, and I also would never have thought to charge him for the cost of privacy screen or hedge that I would like.
Maybe someone in Hessen has already experienced something like this?
Thanks