Tenants told to lump neighbour peeing noise
Tenants have been told they have to put up with tinkling sounds coming through the walls from their neighbours' toilet after a Berlin court rejected their complaint, telling them the noise of someone urinating was “socially acceptable.”
Doctors: noisy offices 'can make you ill'
Millions of office workers in Germany are suffering health implications from distracting noise in the workplace, a study showed on Monday.
Loud children no longer considered noise pollution
The German government on Wednesday made it more difficult to file complaints about the sound of children playing in residential areas by altering noise pollution laws.
Pensioners want kids out of residential areas
The German Child Protection Association has reacted angrily to a proposal from a senior citizens’ organization to remove children’s day care centres from residential areas.