Control panel road in Germany

The German road control panels are officially published in Straßenverkehrs-Ordnung (highway code) or in Verkehrszeichenkatalog (catalogs indications).

Coding

Old panels

• Old German panels unfortunately in the course of disappearance, replaced by simplified pictograms:
• “ attention children ” represents a young girl with a braid drawing behind it his/her little brother by the hand, thus showing the traditional role of the girl as a future mother.
• “ carpark for hikers ” watch a bearing man hat, canes and bag-with-back followed by his wife to the marked curves and whose short skirt emphasizes bent calves. It holds behind it an indefinable object, undoubtedly a hat which if not would be carried by the wind which it décoiffe?
• “ underpass ” which evokes Jacques Tati
• “ crossing for pedestrians ”
• “ Interdit with the motor bikes and cars” with a motor bike of collection…