Schilder für den Radverkehr

Erklärung: The blue circle makes the path compulsory. Without a blue sign the path is optional and the road stays open to you — with one, it does not.

Erklärung: A shared path is still compulsory for you, and the people on foot set the pace. The bell is a warning, not a request to clear the way.

Erklärung: A separated path gives each side its own strip, and the sign tells you which one is yours. Riding on the walking half is the same offence as riding on a footway.

Erklärung: A blue circle with only a walking figure is a footway. Pushing makes you a pedestrian; riding makes you a cyclist on a footway, which adults may not be.

Erklärung: Red ring, bicycle inside — no cycling. It forbids riding, not walking, so pushing the bike through is still allowed unless another sign says otherwise.

Erklärung: No entry. It is what a one-way street looks like from the wrong end, and it binds bicycles unless a plate underneath frees them.

Erklärung: The plate opens the street to bicycles against the flow. Everything coming towards you is on its correct side, so ride well right and slowly at parked cars.

Erklärung: In a bicycle street riding two abreast is expressly allowed, the limit is 30 km/h for everyone, and motor traffic is only there if a plate lets it in.

Erklärung: In a traffic-calmed area the whole width belongs to people first, children may play in it, and everyone drives at walking pace. Leaving the area, you give way to the street you join.

Erklärung: Without one of the blue signs 237, 240 or 241 the path is an offer, not a duty. You may use it; you may equally stay on the road, and on a narrow path full of driveways the road is often safer.

Erklärung: "No vehicles of any kind" includes bicycles — in German law a bicycle is a vehicle and you are its driver, with the duties that go with that.

Erklärung: A footway. Blue orders — here it orders the path for people on foot. Only a white plate with a bicycle underneath would let you ride, and then at walking pace.

Erklärung: The red ring forbids what is inside it. Pushing is walking, so you may still push the bicycle through.

Erklärung: The red disc with the white bar closes one end of a street — usually the far end of a one-way street. It binds bicycles too, unless a white plate with a bicycle hangs underneath.

Erklärung: A Fahrradstraße. Bicycles may ride side by side, everyone keeps to 30 km/h, and cars may use it only where a plate lets them in.

Erklärung: A blue circle is a command. The shared path is compulsory for you — and the people on foot set the pace on it.

Erklärung: A separated path gives each side its own strip. The sign shows which one is yours; riding on the walking half is riding on a footway.

Erklärung: In a traffic-calmed area everyone moves at walking pace, and children may play anywhere on the road.

Erklärung: Zeichen 350 marks a zebra crossing. People on foot have priority there; a cyclist riding across does not.

Erklärung: At a pedestrian crossing anyone who wants to cross — not only someone already on the stripes — has priority. Slow down early and stop.