Trouble with neighbors? How much noise children can make
by Eva Dorothée SchmidPublished July 18, 2017Updated March 26, 2019
Children can be very loud – and it is not uncommon for neighbors to complain about the noise that the little ones make. Some parents then fear that the landlord could quit them because of the noise from their children. But jurisdiction is very parent and child-friendly when it comes to child noise. So you don’t have to worry much if your kids make noise.
All parents should know that child noise in the legal sense is not noise at all. Has been in Section 22 (1a) of the Federal Immission Control Act since 2011. You can tell that to nagging neighbors. Literally it says in the said Federal Immission Control Act: