Gütersloh road traffic office: one site for the whole district
The Gütersloh district registers every vehicle at a single office, on Herzebrocker Straße in Gütersloh. The directory lists no branches.
For the 13 towns and municipalities of the Gütersloh district, from Rheda-Wiedenbrück and Verl to Versmold and Halle (Westf.), the Federal Motor Transport Authority’s directory lists a single registration office: the district road traffic office, Herzebrocker Str. 140, 33334 Gütersloh, phone 05241-85-1200. The department that issues and exchanges driving licences is there too. Only GT is issued. HW for Halle in Westphalia and WD for Wiedenbrück are listed as phased out: vehicles that carry them keep them, but they are not issued again. The district has many cars per head: 667 per 1,000 residents against 592 nationally, much like the Herford (665) and Minden-Lübbecke (659) districts. In all, 242,741 cars were registered on 1 January 2026, rank 32 of 398. Deregistering costs €15.90 at the counter and €2.10 online, as of October 2026.
Register a new car · Kreis Gütersloh
€30.00
GebOSt fee; with seals and the KBA share €31.90 to €37.30
| District plate codes | GT |
| Phased out (existing cars only) | HW, WD |
| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Online would cost less by | €16.90 |
| City’s own amount | not published by the city |
Registration office: LK Gütersloh
- Main office Gütersloh
Herzebrocker Str. 140, 33334 Gütersloh
Tel. 05241-85-1200
abt22@kreis-guetersloh.de
Driving licence office
- Kreis Gütersloh
Herzebrocker Straße 140, 33324 Gütersloh
Tel. 05241/85-1225
242,741 cars registered (1 January 2026), 4.7 % fully electric; 667 cars per 1,000 residents.
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Registration office addresses
Herzebrocker Straße runs from the centre towards Herzebrock-Clarholz; address and phone are in the table. The district sets appointments and waiting times itself.
| Type | Location | Address | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main office | Gütersloh | Herzebrocker Str. 140, 33334 Gütersloh | 05241-85-1200 |
Licensing office and vehicles
| Licensing office | Address |
|---|---|
| Kreis Gütersloh · Der Landrat · Abteilung Straßenverkehr | Herzebrocker Straße 140, 33324 Gütersloh |
| Vehicles | Gütersloh | Germany |
|---|---|---|
| Cars | 242,741 | 49,486,487 |
| Cars per 1,000 residents | 667 | 592 |
| Share of fully electric cars | 4.7 % | 4.1 % |
| Share of plug-in hybrids | 2.2 % | 2.3 % |
| Share of diesel cars | 29.1 % | 27.0 % |
| Motorcycles | 20,404 | 5,071,468 |
For Bielefeld, the Warendorf district or the Paderborn district the search above names their own office. How deregistering and reserving a number fit together is under deregistering a car; phased-out codes are in the plate code list.