{"id":9036,"date":"2026-01-04T18:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leipzig-recht.de\/?p=9036"},"modified":"2026-01-04T18:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:10:27","slug":"haftung-bei-raeum-und-streupflicht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leipzig-recht.de\/en\/haftung-bei-raeum-und-streupflicht\/","title":{"rendered":"Liability for Snow and Ice Removal Obligations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In its ruling of August 6, 2025 (Case No. VIII ZR 250\/23), the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) clarified the liability of landlords who are also apartment owners when snow removal and salting obligations are violated. The BGH ruled that a landlord who is also an apartment owner is generally liable for damages suffered by a tenant due to a fall on an icy path in the common area \u2013 if the snow removal and salting obligations have been neglected.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Practical relevance:<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even if the owners' association or a building maintenance service is responsible, the landlord remains liable to the tenant. Landlords must ensure that winter maintenance is reliably organized.<\/p>\n<p>&zwnj;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 100%\"><small>You're in need of professional advice on the topic of 'Liability for Snow and Ice Removal Obligations'?<br \/>Contact us!<br \/>For a free initial assessment of your concern, please call us at 0341-23 08 4988 or send a message to office@leipzig-recht.de.<\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mit Urteil vom 06.08.2025, Az. VIII ZR 250\/23 kl\u00e4rte der Bundesgerichtshof die Haftung des vermietenden Wohnungseigent\u00fcmers, wenn die R\u00e4um- und Streupflicht verletzt wird. Der BGH entschied, dass ein Vermieter, der zugleich Wohnungseigent\u00fcmer ist, grunds\u00e4tzlich f\u00fcr Sch\u00e4den haftet, die ein Mieter durch einen Sturz auf einem vereisten Weg im Gemeinschaftseigentum erleidet \u2013 wenn die R\u00e4um- und [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,97],"tags":[231,293,292,294],"class_list":["post-9036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mietrecht","category-wohnungseigentumsrecht","tag-haftung","tag-hausmeisterdienst","tag-streupflicht","tag-vermieterverantwortung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leipzig-recht.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leipzig-recht.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leipzig-recht.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leipzig-recht.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leipzig-recht.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9036"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leipzig-recht.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9041,"href":"https:\/\/leipzig-recht.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions\/9041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leipzig-recht.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leipzig-recht.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leipzig-recht.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}