Granting of access to the land register

If you belong to the group of participants named in § 133 GBO and the admission requirements listed in § 133 GBO are met, you can apply for admission to the automated land register retrieval procedure.

The automated land register retrieval procedure enables authorised participants to view the electronic land register directly online. The target group of this range of services offered by the judiciary are courts, authorities, notaries, publicly appointed surveyors, persons entitled in rem to the property, a person or body commissioned by the person entitled in rem, the Staatsbank Berlin and for the purposes of the automatic processing of requests for information, but not other public-law credit institutions.

Jurisdiction lies with the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main.

• the completed application form

Forms available: Yes

Written form required: No

Informal application possible: Yes

Personal appearance required: No

Online services available: Yes

The establishment of an automated procedure enabling the transmission of data from the computerised land register by search shall be permitted, provided that it is ensured that:

1. the retrieval of data does not exceed the inspection permitted under or on the basis of §§ 12 and 12a GBO,
2. the admissibility of retrieval can be checked on the basis of logging.

Permission to participate in the automated land register retrieval procedure may only be granted to courts, authorities, notaries, publicly appointed surveyors, persons entitled to the property in rem, a person or body commissioned by persons entitled in rem, the Staatsbank Berlin and for the purposes of the automatic processing of requests for information, but not to other public-law credit institutions. It presupposes that:

1. this form of data transfer is appropriate taking into account the legitimate interests of the persons entitled in rem concerned because of the large number of transfers or because of their particular urgency,
2. the principles of proper data processing are observed on the part of the recipient, and
3. on the part of the land registry office, the technical possibilities of setting up and handling the procedure are given and a disruption of the business operations of the land registry office is not to be expected.

If the application is rejected, an application for a court decision may be filed pursuant to Section 23 of the Introductory Act to the Judiciary Act (EGGVG).

The application form must be completed in full and sent to the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main. If the admission requirements are met, approval is granted to participate in the automated land register retrieval procedure.

There are no deadlines.

There is no legal processing period.

Title of costs:

Mode of payment:

If applicable, additionally: or credit card payment upon receipt of invoice via ePayment platform

There is an obligation to pay a fee for approval of the restricted retrieval procedure. There is a one-time approval fee of 50 euros. Authorisation for the unrestricted retrieval procedure is free of charge. Authorities of the Federation and the Länder as well as public institutions and funds administered according to the budgets of the Federation or a Land are exempt from fees (§ 2 of the Judicial Administration Costs Act). A fee of 8 euros is charged for each retrieval of data from a land register sheet.: Fee 50,00 EUR