diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 0116a596317fe33d4973651a0965d54cf0cc0fe9..e04fcb947f9ac173132494e02e050487941b7d38 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 project(dune-istl C CXX)
 
 # general stuff
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.13)
 
 # guess build tree of dune-common
 if(NOT (dune-common_DIR OR dune-common_ROOT OR