Minimum Requirements for Road Condition

The question besides "who has to take care of it" is always "who pays for it". And if you are unlucky, the answer is: the resident.

Nevertheless, one should be able to access their property. Possibly change the type of vehicle?

But please remember that the residents will be significantly involved in the costs if the street is due for expansion.....significant means a five-figure amount depending on the street expansion statute and local conditions.

Maybe you should be content with just having the surface repaired with gravel.

Nevertheless, one should be able to reach their property. Maybe change the type of vehicle?

German roads are sometimes only bearable in an SUV ;-)

The question besides "who has to take care of it" is always "who pays for it". And if you're unlucky, the answer is: the resident.

Maybe you should be content with just improving it with gravel.

The description sounds like a residential street (?) – it could be possible and cheaper to keep it public but to be authorized by the municipality as a neighbors' association to take care of the maintenance on your own. Just talk to the right people – in almost every municipal council there are occasionally people who are not stupid.

Almost every municipal council also ends up with people who are not stupid.

Is that your theory or have you actually been able to observe that in practice? In my experience, they are overwhelmingly civil servants and public sector employees, as others simply can't spare that much (work) time to engage in the municipal council :-D Just take a look at the professions of the representatives of the people. *duck and run*

Yes, that is my practical observation - and your perception is, to my knowledge, not correct regarding [Gemeinderäte] (i.e. parliamentarians at the local community, collective municipality, and district level), but largely applies to volunteer local mayors. The necessary scope of release from duties is actually mostly granted only by public employers. In [Gemeinderäte], you more frequently find employees from social professions (and from church organizations), lawyers, insurance agents, and retirees. Furthermore, housewives (practically only there, hardly anymore in state parliaments) and, as a commonality with the [Bundestag], teachers. Administrative officials are naturally rather rare, except those in the police, and also many administration-active [Bundeswehr] employees. Each faction has a chairman and a managing director, so two leading thinkers, and exchanges views in faction meetings. Nevertheless, some council members repeatedly stand out for using their own brains. And through them, you can indeed infiltrate their faction with thoughts of reality.