The rent brake in Bavaria: one ordinance, three protections
Enter your municipality: the rent check shows whether Bavaria’s tenant-protection ordinance covers it and works out the limits.
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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 calculateBavaria sets all three tenant protections of the German Civil Code in a single ordinance, the tenant-protection ordinance (Mieterschutzverordnung) of 16 December 2025. It has applied since 1 January 2026 and runs until 31 December 2029. For the same list of municipalities it orders three things: the rent brake (Mietpreisbremse) on new leases, the lowered 15 per cent cap on rent increases, and a ten-year notice ban when a rented flat is converted into a condominium and sold. The list first held 285 municipalities; since an amendment in July 2026 there are 284. More than two thirds lie in Upper Bavaria, including Munich and almost every municipality around it, plus cities such as Nuremberg, Augsburg, Regensburg, Würzburg and Erlangen. Whole municipalities are always covered, never single districts. Take Ingolstadt: with an assumed reference rent of €12.00 per square metre, a new 70 m² lease may cost at most €924.00 a month before service charges.
Bavaria’s tenant-protection ordinance
Instead of three separate ordinances, Bavaria issued one combined ordinance based on Section 556d(2), Section 558(3) and Section 577a(2) of the Civil Code. For tenants this has a practical advantage: wherever the rent brake applies, so do the lowered cap and the longer notice ban, with the same end date. The previous 2021 ordinance expired at the end of 2025 and the new one followed without a gap. It was published in GVBl. 2025 p. 718; the 2026 amendment is in GVBl. 2026 p. 334.
What the rent check works out for Ingolstadt
For a new 70 m² lease and an assumed reference rent of €12.00, at most €924.00 is lawful; the agreed €980 is €56.00 a month too much. For an increase from €714 to €840, the cap brakes it to €821.10. The reference rent itself comes from the municipality's rent index; separate pages explain where to find it for Munich and Nuremberg.
Every municipality in the ordinance
| District | Count | Municipalities |
|---|---|---|
| independent cities | 16 | Aschaffenburg, Augsburg, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Erlangen, Fürth, Ingolstadt, Kempten, Landshut, Memmingen, München, Nürnberg, Regensburg, Rosenheim, Schwabach, Würzburg |
| Landkreis Altötting | 3 | Burghausen, Kirchweidach, Stammham |
| Landkreis Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen | 18 | Bad Heilbrunn, Bad Tölz, Benediktbeuern, Bichl, Dietramszell, Egling, Gaißach, Geretsried, Greiling, Icking, Jachenau, Kochel a. See, Lenggries, Münsing, Reichersbeuern, Sachsenkam, Wackersberg, Wolfratshausen |
| Landkreis Berchtesgadener Land | 3 | Ainring, Bad Reichenhall, Freilassing |
| Landkreis Dachau | 12 | Bergkirchen, Dachau, Haimhausen, Hebertshausen, Karlsfeld, Markt Indersdorf, Odelzhausen, Petershausen, Pfaffenhofen a.d. Glonn, Röhrmoos, Sulzemoos, Vierkirchen |
| Landkreis Ebersberg | 21 | Anzing, Aßling, Baiern, Bruck, Ebersberg, Egmating, Emmering, Forstinning, Frauenneuharting, Glonn, Grafing b. München, Hohenlinden, Kirchseeon, Markt Schwaben, Moosach, Oberpframmern, Pliening, Poing, Steinhöring, Vaterstetten, Zorneding |
| Landkreis Erding | 12 | Berglern, Buch a. Buchrain, Dorfen, Eitting, Erding, Finsing, Forstern, Langenpreising, Lengdorf, Oberding, Ottenhofen, Pastetten |
| Vils) (Lkr. Erding | 1 | Taufkirchen |
| Landkreis Freising | 13 | Allershausen, Au i.d. Hallertau, Eching, Fahrenzhausen, Freising, Haag a.d. Amper, Hallbergmoos, Langenbach, Marzling, Moosburg a.d. Isar, Neufahrn b. Freising, Paunzhausen, Zolling |
| Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck | 21 | Adelshofen, Alling, Egenhofen, Eichenau, Emmering, Fürstenfeldbruck, Germering, Grafrath, Gröbenzell, Hattenhofen, Jesenwang, Kottgeisering, Landsberied, Maisach, Mammendorf, Moorenweis, Oberschweinbach, Olching, Puchheim, Schöngeising, Türkenfeld |
| Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen | 9 | Ettal, Farchant, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Mittenwald, Murnau a. Staffelsee, Oberammergau, Seehausen a. Staffelsee, Uffing a. Staffelsee, Unterammergau |
| Landkreis Landsberg am Lech | 8 | Dießen am Ammersee, Eching am Ammersee, Eresing, Greifenberg, Kaufering, Landsberg am Lech, Penzing, Schondorf am Ammersee |
| Landkreis Miesbach | 13 | Fischbachau, Gmund a. Tegernsee, Hausham, Holzkirchen, Irschenberg, Kreuth, Miesbach, Otterfing, Tegernsee, Valley, Waakirchen, Warngau, Weyarn |
| Landkreis Mühldorf a. Inn | 1 | Mühldorf a. Inn |
| Landkreis München | 29 | Aschheim, Aying, Baierbrunn, Brunnthal, Feldkirchen, Garching b. München, Gräfelfing, Grasbrunn, Grünwald, Haar, Hohenbrunn, Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, Ismaning, Kirchheim b. München, Neubiberg, Neuried, Oberhaching, Oberschleißheim, Ottobrunn, Planegg, Pullach i. Isartal, Putzbrunn, Sauerlach, Schäftlarn, Straßlach-Dingharting, Taufkirchen, Unterföhring, Unterhaching, Unterschleißheim |
| Landkreis Neuburg-Schrobenhausen | 1 | Neuburg a.d. Donau |
| Landkreis Pfaffenhofen a.d. Ilm | 2 | Manching, Pfaffenhofen a.d. Ilm |
| Landkreis Rosenheim | 24 | Bad Aibling, Bad Endorf, Bad Feilnbach, Bernau a. Chiemsee, Brannenburg, Bruckmühl, Feldkirchen-Westerham, Großkarolinenfeld, Halfing, Kiefersfelden, Kolbermoor, Neubeuern, Oberaudorf, Prien a. Chiemsee, Prutting, Raubling, Riedering, Rimsting, Rohrdorf, Samerberg, Schonstett, Stephanskirchen, Tuntenhausen, Wasserburg a. Inn |
| Landkreis Starnberg | 14 | Andechs, Berg, Feldafing, Gauting, Gilching, Herrsching a. Ammersee, Inning a. Ammersee, Krailling, Pöcking, Seefeld, Starnberg, Tutzing, Weßling, Wörthsee |
| Landkreis Traunstein | 3 | Traunreut, Traunstein, Trostberg |
| Landkreis Weilheim-Schongau | 3 | Bernried, Penzberg, Weilheim i. OB |
| Landkreis Kehlheim | 1 | Mainburg |
| Landkreis Landshut | 2 | Altdorf, Ergolding |
| Landkreis Neumarkt i.d. OPf. | 1 | Neumarkt i.d. OPf. |
| Landkreis Regensburg | 1 | Neutraubling |
| Landkreis Ansbach | 1 | Weidenbach |
| Landkreis Erlangen-Höchstadt | 11 | Adelsdorf, Baiersdorf, Bubenreuth, Buckenhof, Eckenthal, Hemhofen, Herzogenaurach, Heßdorf, Möhrendorf, Röttenbach, Uttenreuth |
| Landkreis Fürth | 3 | Oberasbach, Stein, Zirndorf |
| Landkreis Neustadt a.d. Aisch/Bad Windsheim | 1 | Weigenheim |
| Landkreis Nürnberger Land | 3 | Feucht, Röthenbach a.d. Pegnitz, Schwaig b. Nürnberg |
| Landkreis Roth | 1 | Wendelstein |
| Landkreis Aschaffenburg | 3 | Kahl a. Main, Kleinostheim, Stockstadt a. Main |
| Landkreis Aichach-Friedberg | 4 | Aichach, Friedberg, Kissing, Mering |
| Landkreis Augsburg | 6 | Diedorf, Kleinaitingen, Klosterlechfeld, Königsbrunn, Neusäß, Stadtbergen |
| Landkreis Dillingen a.d. Donau | 1 | Zusamaltheim |
| Landkreis Günzburg | 2 | Günzburg, Leipheim |
| Landkreis Lindau (Bodensee) | 3 | Bodolz ), Nonnenhorn ), Weißensberg ) |
| Bodensee) (Lkr. Lindau (Bodensee) | 2 | Lindau ), Wasserburg ) |
| Landkreis Neu-Ulm | 3 | Neu-Ulm, Senden, Vöhringen |
| Landkreis Oberallgäu | 3 | Bolsterlang, Immenstadt i. Allgäu, Sonthofen |
| Landkreis Ostallgäu | 2 | Buchloe, Füssen |
| Landkreis Unterallgäu | 3 | Memmingerberg, Mindelheim, Trunkelsberg |