diff --git a/dune/common/test/CMakeLists.txt b/dune/common/test/CMakeLists.txt
index 5fb1f6c5b59c2d389e35008bf05b062b7cede9b7..a1120ebc3b4b8e4481f200f42158af9db87e1f7f 100644
--- a/dune/common/test/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/dune/common/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ set(TESTS
     shared_ptrtest_config
     singletontest
     streamtest
-    testfconstruct
     testfloatcmp
     tuplestest_config
     tupleutilitytest
@@ -48,9 +47,7 @@ set(COMPILEFAILTESTS
     check_fvector_size_fail1
     check_fvector_size_fail2
     genericiterator_compile_fail
-    nullptr-test-fail
-    testfconstruct_fail1
-    testfconstruct_fail2)
+    nullptr-test-fail)
 
 set(TESTPROGS ${TESTS} ${FAILTESTS})
 
@@ -161,15 +158,6 @@ add_executable("testdebugallocator_fail5" testdebugallocator.cc)
 target_link_libraries(testdebugallocator_fail5 dunecommon)
 set_target_properties(testdebugallocator_fail5 PROPERTIES COMPILE_DEFINITIONS "FAILURE5;EXPECTED_SIGNAL=SIGSEGV")
 
-add_executable("testfconstruct" EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL testfconstruct.cc)
-set_target_properties(testfconstruct PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-DFVSIZE=3")
-target_link_libraries(testfconstruct "dunecommon")
-add_executable("testfconstruct_fail1" EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL testfconstruct.cc)
-set_target_properties(testfconstruct_fail1 PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-DFVSIZE=2")
-target_link_libraries(testfconstruct_fail1 "dunecommon")
-add_executable("testfconstruct_fail2" EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL testfconstruct.cc)
-set_target_properties(testfconstruct_fail2 PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-DFVSIZE=5")
-target_link_libraries(testfconstruct_fail2 "dunecommon")
 add_executable("tuplestest_config" tuplestest.cc)
 add_executable("tupleutilitytest" tupleutilitytest.cc)
 add_executable("utilitytest" utilitytest.cc)
diff --git a/dune/common/test/Makefile.am b/dune/common/test/Makefile.am
index 19bffaaea62ee3709a0b46cd21e695ccfdf1de09..fe06436d730b013c8e75028742954794fb1431c4 100644
--- a/dune/common/test/Makefile.am
+++ b/dune/common/test/Makefile.am
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ TESTPROGS = \
     testdebugallocator_fail3 \
     testdebugallocator_fail4 \
     testdebugallocator_fail5 \
-    testfconstruct \
     testfloatcmp \
     tuplestest_std \
     tupleutilitytest \
@@ -50,9 +49,7 @@ COMPILE_XFAIL_TESTS = \
     check_fvector_size_fail1 \
     check_fvector_size_fail2 \
     genericiterator_compile_fail \
-    nullptr-test-fail \
-    testfconstruct_fail1 \
-    testfconstruct_fail2
+    nullptr-test-fail
 
 compile_XFAIL:
 	for i in $(COMPILE_XFAIL_TESTS); do \
@@ -192,15 +189,6 @@ testdebugallocator_fail4_CPPFLAGS = $(AM_CPPFLAGS) -DFAILURE4 -DDEBUG_ALLOCATOR_
 testdebugallocator_fail5_SOURCES = testdebugallocator.cc
 testdebugallocator_fail5_CPPFLAGS = $(AM_CPPFLAGS) -DFAILURE5
 
-testfconstruct_SOURCES = testfconstruct.cc
-testfconstruct_CPPFLAGS = $(AM_CPPFLAGS) -DFVSIZE=3
-
-testfconstruct_fail1_SOURCES = testfconstruct.cc
-testfconstruct_fail1_CPPFLAGS = $(AM_CPPFLAGS) -DFVSIZE=2
-
-testfconstruct_fail2_SOURCES = testfconstruct.cc
-testfconstruct_fail2_CPPFLAGS = $(AM_CPPFLAGS) -DFVSIZE=5
-
 testfloatcmp_SOURCES = testfloatcmp.cc
 
 tuplestest_std_SOURCES = tuplestest.cc
diff --git a/dune/common/test/testfconstruct.cc b/dune/common/test/testfconstruct.cc
deleted file mode 100644
index a35feafd6dcc80413138401564fd99d842114387..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/dune/common/test/testfconstruct.cc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-// -*- tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*-
-// vi: set et ts=4 sw=2 sts=2:
-#include <config.h>
-
-#include <iostream>
-#include <dune/common/fvector.hh>
-#include <dune/common/fassign.hh>
-
-using namespace Dune;
-
-int main(int, char**) {
-  Dune::FieldVector<double,3> pos;
-
-  pos <<= 1, 0, 0;
-
-  Dune::FieldVector<float,FVSIZE> pos2(pos);
-}