diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index ffec47725..2940f34e6 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014-2023 Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, RWTH Aachen University
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-[submodule "common"]
-	path = common
-	url = https://github.com/VILLASframework/common.git
 [submodule "fpga"]
 	path = fpga
 	url = https://github.com/VILLASframework/fpga.git
diff --git a/common b/common
deleted file mode 160000
index 15e338d2b..000000000
--- a/common
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 15e338d2be87d7d4d54ec9735ccd055b2abff084