The rent brake in Baden-Württemberg: 130 municipalities for one year
Baden-Württemberg’s ordinances only cover 2026; the rent check tests your municipality and the lease date.
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Maximum rent at the start of the tenancy
no cap
The municipality is in no ordinance on this date.
| Local reference rent | €11.00/m² |
| Reference rent for your floor area | €682 |
| Rent brake | does not apply here |
| Increase cap | 20 % in three years |
Without the rent brake, Sections 556d ff. BGB set no limit at signing. Later increases still follow Section 558 BGB, with the reference rent and the cap.
How we calculateOn 16 December 2025 Baden-Württemberg adopted three ordinances with the same list of municipalities: on the rent brake (Mietpreisbremse), on the 15 per cent increase cap and on a five-year notice ban after conversion into condominiums. All three apply only from 1 January to 31 December 2026. The list holds 130 towns and municipalities, far more than the 89 of the 2020 ordinance, including Stuttgart, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Tübingen, Ulm and many towns around them. Mannheim and Konstanz are no longer covered since 2026. For 2027 the state cabinet released draft ordinances with a wider list for consultation on 22 September 2026; none had been published as law by early October 2026. Anyone signing a 60 m² lease in Heidelberg may pay at most €825.00 a month before service charges at an assumed reference rent of €12.50 per square metre; a lease of 4 January 2027 would on current law no longer be bound.
Three ordinances, one list, one year
The Baden-Württemberg rent ordinance is number 144 in the 2025 official gazette, the cap ordinance number 145 and the notice-ban ordinance number 146. The municipality lists are identical. What is unusual is the short term: federal law allows ordinances until the end of 2029 (Section 556d(2) of the Civil Code), but Baden-Württemberg chose one year. Tenants and landlords in the state therefore face a gap at the end of 2026 if the successors do not arrive in time.
Heidelberg as an example
A new 60 m² lease at €900: assuming a reference rent of €12.50, the ceiling is €825.00, so the rent is €75.00 above it. For an increase from €638 to €750, the cap allows only €733.70. Stuttgart, where the rent index also expires at the end of 2026, has its own page: Stuttgart rent index.
Every municipality in 2026
| Letter | Count | Municipalities |
|---|---|---|
| A | 4 | Achern, Aitrach, Altbach, Asperg |
| B | 8 | Backnang, Bad Bellingen, Bad Krozingen, Bad Schussenried, Baienfurt, Böblingen, Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Bötzingen |
| D | 5 | Deggenhausertal, Denkendorf, Dettingen an der Erms, Dielheim, Dietenheim |
| E | 8 | Edingen-Neckarhausen, Ehrenkirchen, Eisenbach, Eislingen/Fils, Ellhofen, Emmendingen, Eningen u. Achalm, Esslingen am Neckar |
| F | 7 | Fellbach, Filderstadt, Freiamt, Freiburg i. Br., Frickingen, Friedrichshafen, Friesenheim |
| G | 5 | Göppingen, Gottenheim, Graben-Neudorf, Güglingen, Gundelfingen |
| H | 9 | Häg-Ehrsberg, Heddesheim, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Heiligenberg, Heitersheim, Holzgerlingen, Hoßkirch, Hülben |
| I | 1 | Ittlingen |
| J | 1 | Jagsthausen |
| K | 12 | Kappel-Grafenhausen, Karlsruhe, Kenzingen, Kernen im Remstal, Kippenheim, Kirchardt, Kirchheim unter Teck, Kirchzarten, Kißlegg, Korb, Korntal-Münchingen, Kornwestheim |
| L | 5 | Lahr/Schwarzwald, Leonberg, Lichtenstein, Lörrach, Ludwigsburg |
| M | 16 | Mahlberg, Mahlstetten, Malsburg-Marzell, Malterdingen, March, Maselheim, Massenbachhausen, Meckenbeuren, Meißenheim, Merklingen, Merzhausen, Metzingen, Möglingen, Mühlacker, Mühlhausen-Ehingen, Mühlingen |
| N | 3 | Neuhausen auf den Fildern, Neulußheim, Nürtingen |
| O | 3 | Oberhausen-Rheinhausen, Offenburg, Ostfildern |
| P | 5 | Pfaffenhofen, Pfaffenweiler, Pfedelbach, Pforzheim, Philippsburg |
| R | 6 | Reichenau, Reilingen, Reutlingen, Rheinhausen, Riederich, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl |
| S | 13 | Salach, Sasbach, Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl, Schallstadt, Schutterwald, Schwaikheim, Schwarzach, Sindelfingen, St. Leon-Rot, Stegen, Steinenbronn, Stockach, Stuttgart |
| T | 2 | Teningen, Tübingen |
| U | 4 | Ulm, Umkirch, Untermarchtal, Utzenfeld |
| V | 2 | Vogt, Vogtsburg im Kaiserstuhl |
| W | 10 | Waldkirch, Weil am Rhein, Weingarten, Wembach, Wernau, Widdern, Wiesloch, Wittnau, Wolfegg, Wutach |
| Z | 1 | Zwiefalten |