Neighbor has erected a 180cm high fence without final coordination

if the "Sagrotan generation" concludes from their shame problem that they are allowed to darken the neighbor's property for privacy reasons.

Is that really so unusual? I mean, coming from the countryside, I also know of lower fences or, if higher ones, then simply without privacy screens, especially in areas where the properties are quite large and you don’t really get so close to each other. But even there, where it’s more densely populated, a tall hedge to separate gardens or something similar wasn’t unusual. In the city, I was surprised at first as well, but both in Hamburg and here in the Ruhr area, tall privacy screens in gardens seemed to be quite common. Of course, there are exceptions everywhere; I have acquaintances who lived in terraced houses and agreed with the neighbors not to put up any fence and to use the garden together. But basically, even with those with tall privacy screens, the owners I have in mind were more from my parents’ generation (50-70); I don’t know if I would have called them the "Sagrotan generation" :oops:

But even there, where it is more densely populated, a tall hedge to separate the garden or something similar was not unusual. In the city, I was also surprised at first, but both in Hamburg and here in the Ruhr area, tall privacy screens in gardens seemed to be quite common. Of course, there are exceptions everywhere, I know people who lived in terraced houses and had agreed with their neighbors not to put up a fence and to use the garden together. But basically, even among those with tall privacy screens, the owners I have in mind were rather the generation of my parents (50-70), I don't know if I would have said "Generation Sagrotan" there

I don't mean my generation either, but the "born under Kohl" generation with their, from my '68er perspective ;-) almost pathological disgust at their own naturalness and a "homeownership as a fortress" attitude that would reject a communist commons of two neighboring gardens as an immoral idea. They would never wait for man-high hedges; for them, only a fence is a sufficiently fast-growing privacy screen. Although I've never heard that any of their neighbors would mow naked, they apparently have a panic fear that someone on the "opposing" terrace might count their calories while icing a cake. Privacy protection as the top priority, even before world peace if necessary... oh, let's leave it at that ;-)

There are climbing plants that grow up the fence... Maybe that’s a simple solution for better aesthetics.

Haha wait and see, after the desired 2m high fence, the great anthracite plastic strips will come on the wish list. So you can nicely stare at the bleak wall from hell. Plants pffff…

For the OP it worked out perfectly. Fence on the boundary, neighbor benefits. If the feasible 2m screen is wanted, he will get it. One way or another. Make your side nice and done.

I read it differently.

I didn't. I have highlighted the passage in blue.

Then don't look so much at the types of enclosures, but at the boundary surfaces for which your enclosure restrictions apply...

Thank you , I must have overlooked something. o_O My bad. ;)

Then the state building code NW applies, with 2 m.