Fire brigade setup and movement areas Hessen

Hello everyone,

we are planning to build two houses on a long plot and keep stumbling over the fire department areas. The HBO states

For buildings that are entirely or partially more than 50 m away from a public traffic area, access roads or passages according to sentence 2 must be created to the parts of the property and movement areas located in front of and behind the buildings, if they are necessary for fire department operations.

Our open space plan currently provides a staging area of 7x12 meters in front of the front house since maneuvering space is needed there anyway. No passage behind the rear building is planned (plot ratio exhausted, it is generally said "exemptions are not granted"). Since both are bungalows, connecting is basically ruled out.

Does anyone know how to interpret the last sentence in our case? When are access routes and movement areas behind the house necessary?



The rear house can still be changed in shape, but I do not expect that we can save enough space to realize an access road all the way behind the house.

In the meantime, I have reached the district fire inspector and received a statement, which may be interesting for some readers. The federal state is Hesse.

Since, in single-story construction, the second escape route can also be reached without fire department equipment (using a ladder), access behind the building is not necessary.

The movement area in front of the front house cannot be represented as such. As a rule, it must not be part of the access road, but this can be accepted in exceptional cases. In addition, for further access routes, a transition must be created over a length of 4 meters (for which the plot ratio does not suffice).