diff --git a/dune/common/fvector.hh b/dune/common/fvector.hh
index 9dbfd8c0a6dbf5a6a6861ebe646c89718ca6fc08..82a4bd3f0c1b9da7597eefb15453a640229cac2f 100644
--- a/dune/common/fvector.hh
+++ b/dune/common/fvector.hh
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include "exceptions.hh"
 #include "array.hh"
 #include "densevector.hh"
+#include "static_assert.hh"
 
 namespace Dune {
 
@@ -87,6 +88,14 @@ namespace Dune {
         _data[i] = x[i];
     }
 
+    //! Constructor making vector with identical coordinates
+    template<class K1, int SIZE1>
+    explicit FieldVector (const FieldVector<K1,SIZE1> & x)
+    {
+      static_assert(SIZE1 == SIZE, "FieldVector in costructor has wrong size");
+      for (size_type i = 0; i<SIZE; i++)
+        _data[i] = x[i];
+    }
     using Base::operator=;
 
     // make this thing a vector
diff --git a/dune/common/test/.gitignore b/dune/common/test/.gitignore
index 6c54da3f78c7e2c065508151d674d652c67e5ead..f77f293b17d439eb10c370c8823c33d2f377e779 100644
--- a/dune/common/test/.gitignore
+++ b/dune/common/test/.gitignore
@@ -60,3 +60,4 @@ tags
 pathtest
 TAGS
 mpihelpertest2
+testfconstruct
diff --git a/dune/common/test/Makefile.am b/dune/common/test/Makefile.am
index b487dd4bf7a25cae0507e3b69462f5bacd4d8510..3e76afae73650638d8224307e4472f153d046480 100644
--- a/dune/common/test/Makefile.am
+++ b/dune/common/test/Makefile.am
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ TESTPROGS = \
     testfassign_fail4 \
     testfassign_fail5 \
     testfassign_fail6 \
+    testfconstruct \
     tuplestest_dune \
     tuplestest_std \
     tuplestest_tr1 \
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ TESTPROGS = \
 # which tests to run
 COMPILE_XFAIL=$(DUNE_COMMON_BIN)/xfail-compile-tests
 
-COMPILE_XFAIL_TESTS = genericiterator_compile_fail nullptr-test-fail static_assert_test_fail
+COMPILE_XFAIL_TESTS = genericiterator_compile_fail nullptr-test-fail static_assert_test_fail testfconstruct_fail1 testfconstruct_fail2
 
 compile_XFAIL:
 	for i in $(COMPILE_XFAIL_TESTS); do \
@@ -200,6 +201,15 @@ testfassign_fail5_CPPFLAGS = $(AM_CPPFLAGS) -D_N=2 -D_M=2 -D_VALUES="1, 2"
 testfassign_fail6_SOURCES = testfassign.cc
 testfassign_fail6_CPPFLAGS = $(AM_CPPFLAGS) -D_N=2 -D_M=2 -D_VALUES="1, 2, nextRow, 2, 3, nextRow, 4, 5"
 
+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
+
 conversiontest_SOURCES = conversiontest.cc
 
 sourcescheck_NOSOURCES = exprtmpl.cc timing.cc
diff --git a/dune/common/test/testfconstruct.cc b/dune/common/test/testfconstruct.cc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b24370cd206eebde5b6e34b385121f85e6007b96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dune/common/test/testfconstruct.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+// -*- 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 argc, char** argv) {
+  Dune::FieldVector<double,3> pos;
+
+  pos <<= 1, 0, 0;
+
+  Dune::FieldVector<float,FVSIZE> pos2(pos);
+}