Condominium Certificates
Certificate of self-containment: the partition plan and application documents needed to create condominium ownership under the German WEG.
The document without which a building cannot be divided into individually owned flats.
What it involves
- The partition plan: every floor plan, section and elevation with each unit numbered
- Identification of individual ownership, common property and exclusive use rights
- The application to the authority for the certificate of self-containment
“Self-contained” means
That each unit is structurally separated from the others in full and has its own lockable entrance. Where that is not met – a shared passageway, a missing bathroom – the building has to be altered first. Better to find that now than at the notary’s appointment.
For clients outside Germany
This is a formal requirement of the German Condominium Act (WEG). It is what allows a single building to be sold as separate titles, so it sits on the critical path for any sale of individual flats – and it is a drawing and application task, not a legal opinion.