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Eingeschränktes Haltverbot — No parking (limited stopping allowed)

Zeichen 286, StVO Anlage 2: you may not stop on the carriageway for longer than three minutes, except to let people in or out, or to load and unload. Under §12 Abs. 2 StVO you are 'parking' as soon as you leave the vehicle or exceed three minutes. Verified 2026-08-03.

Eingeschränktes Haltverbot — No parking (limited stopping allowed)
Verbotszeichen · Prohibition

In plain English

ONE diagonal stroke. Fewer strokes, less strict. Three minutes is the clock — but the clock stops mattering the moment you walk away, because that is parking by definition.

What you are looking at

Blue disc with a thick red rim and a single red diagonal stroke running from TOP-LEFT down to BOTTOM-RIGHT.

Remember it like this

One stroke = one thing banned (parking). Two strokes = two things banned (parking AND stopping).

Easy to confuse with — the exam exploits these

Verbotszeichen (Prohibition) — you may not. usually a red circle. Checked against StVO Anlage 1–3 on 2026-08-03.

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Last updated: 2026-08-03