diff --git a/common/deprecated.hh b/common/deprecated.hh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d28f9f8e5d82d5eede984f366642309f30fda0a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/deprecated.hh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+// -*- tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*-
+// vi: set et ts=4 sw=2 sts=2:
+#ifndef DUNE_DEPRECATED_HH
+#define DUNE_DEPRECATED_HH
+
+#ifndef DUNE_DEPRECATED
+#define DUNE_DEPRECATED
+#endif
+
+#endif
diff --git a/common/fixedarray.hh b/common/fixedarray.hh
index a08bc3105821b4eee7018dfbc3406a9af134d328..093270aac791bb4ea5b1b4ec269c04a232866ab2 100644
--- a/common/fixedarray.hh
+++ b/common/fixedarray.hh
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 #include <iomanip>
 #include <string>
 
+#include <dune/common/deprecated.hh>
+
 // Include system implementation of array class if present
 #ifdef HAVE_ARRAY
 #include <array>
diff --git a/common/typetraits.hh b/common/typetraits.hh
index 91d92c3b27fba850fc5d67e2a7fd137fbadc02a0..33c40cebb51fe2a40c06794d35d69d04504a547c 100644
--- a/common/typetraits.hh
+++ b/common/typetraits.hh
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 #ifndef DUNE_TYPETRAITS_HH
 #define DUNE_TYPETRAITS_HH
 
+#include <dune/common/deprecated.hh>
+
 #ifdef HAVE_TR1_TYPE_TRAITS
 #include <tr1/type_traits>
 #endif