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Is it allowed to build a sauna (a normal sauna with an electric stove) in the garage?
§ 5 Distance Areas
(1) Distance areas must be maintained in front of the outer walls of structural facilities, which must be kept free of above-ground structural facilities. A distance area is not required in front of outer walls at property boundaries if, according to planning law regulations,
1. building on the boundary is mandatory, unless the existing development requires a distance area, or
2. building on the boundary is permitted and it is publicly-law secured that the neighboring property will also be built on the boundary.
Public-law security is not required if, according to the provisions for a deviating construction method, it is permissible to build on the boundary independently of the development on the neighboring property.
(2) The distance areas must lie on the property itself. They may also lie on public traffic areas, public green areas, and public water areas, but for surfaces that can be built on from both sides, only up to their middle.
(3) The distance areas may not overlap. This does not apply to distance areas of outer walls that stand at an angle of more than 75° to each other.
(4) The depth of the distance area is determined by the wall height; it is measured perpendicular to the respective wall. Wall height is defined as the distance from the intersection of the wall with the ground surface to the intersection of the wall with the roof covering or to the upper edge of the wall. If differing heights result for a wall due to the ground surface, the average measured wall height is decisive. It is derived from the arithmetic mean of the height position at the corners of the structural facility; if the intersections with the roof covering or the upper edges differ in height along a wall, this applies to the respective wall section.
(5) The following count toward the wall height:
1. the height of roofs or roof structures with a slope of more than 70° fully and with more than 45° to a quarter,
2. the height of a gable area not at all, as long as no part of the roof has a greater slope than 45°, otherwise half of the ratio in which its actual area stands to the imagined total area of a rectangular wall with the same maximum dimensions; the gable area begins at the horizontal line through the lowest intersection of the wall with the roof covering,
3. for wind turbines only the height up to the rotor axis, whereby the depth of the distance area must be at least the length of the rotor radius.
(6) When assessing distance areas, the following are disregarded:
1. subordinate components such as cornices, roof overhangs, entrance and terrace coverings, if they do not project more than 1.5 m in front of the outer wall,
2. projections such as walls, bay windows, balconies, door and window projections, if they are no wider than 5 m and do not project more than 1.5 m,
and remain at least 2 m away from neighboring boundaries.
(7) The depth of the distance areas is
1. generally 0.4 times the wall height,
2. in core areas, village areas, and in special residential areas 0.2 times the wall height,
3. in commercial and industrial areas as well as in special areas not intended for recreation 0.125 times the wall height.
However, it must not be less than 2.5 m, or 2 m for walls up to 5 m wide.
Version according to the law amending the State Building Code for Baden-Württemberg of 10.11.2009 (GBl. p. 615) effective from 01.03.2010.
§ 6 Distance Areas in Special Cases
(1) The following are permissible in the distance areas of structural facilities as well as without their own distance areas:
1. buildings or parts of buildings with a wall height of no more than 1 m,
2. garages, greenhouses, and buildings
without habitable rooms with a wall height up to 3 m and a wall area up to 25 m²,
3. structural facilities that are not buildings, provided they are not higher than 2.5 m or their wall area does not exceed 25 m²,
4. agricultural greenhouses not covered by number 2, provided they keep at least 1 m distance from neighboring boundaries.
For determining the wall height according to sentence 1 no. 2, the highest point of the ground surface is the basis. Border development in the case of sentence 1 nos. 1 and 2 may not exceed 9 m along individual neighboring boundaries and a total of 15 m.
(2) If buildings or parts of buildings according to paragraph 1 nevertheless comply with distance areas, they must have a depth of at least 0.5 m from neighboring boundaries.
(3) Lesser depths of the distance areas are to be permitted if
1. in predominantly built-up areas the design of the street scene or special local conditions require this,
2. daylight illumination and ventilation are sufficiently ensured, fire protection reasons do not oppose it and neighborly interests are not significantly impaired, or
3. it concerns subsequent measures to improve the thermal insulation of an existing building.
In the cases of number 1, lesser depths of the distance areas may also be required.
Version according to the law amending the State Building Code for Baden-Württemberg of 10.11.2009 (GBl. p. 615) effective from 01.03.2010.
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