diff --git a/modules/de-spiegel/files/server.env b/modules/de-spiegel/files/server.env
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ed1b5ad..00000000
--- a/modules/de-spiegel/files/server.env
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-SMTP_AUTH_USER=${secret:smtp-user}
-SMTP_AUTH_PASS=${secret:smtp-pass}
diff --git a/modules/de-spiegel/module.json b/modules/de-spiegel/module.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 436349f5..00000000
--- a/modules/de-spiegel/module.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "module": "de-spiegel",
-  "version": "1",
-  "slug": "spiegel",
-  "capabilities": [
-    "container-runtime"
-  ],
-  "requires": [
-    "route"
-  ],
-  "contributes": {
-    "route": {
-      "label": "de-spiegel",
-      "endpoint": "web"
-    }
-  },
-  "binds": {
-    "route": "${dir:state}/route.json"
-  },
-  "own-secrets": {
-    "smtp-user": "${dir:state}/smtp-user.secret",
-    "smtp-pass": "${dir:state}/smtp-pass.secret"
-  },
-  "listens": [
-    {
-      "name": "web",
-      "port": 35621,
-      "protocol": "tcp",
-      "from": "mesh",
-      "why": "the de-spiegel site and its /contact endpoint over http; its public name is a route grant, and route-proxy reaches it on this published port"
-    }
-  ],
-  "resources": [
-    {
-      "id": "state",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "mode": "0700",
-      "place": "."
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "server-env",
-      "type": "file",
-      "path": "${dir:state}/server.env",
-      "mode": "0600",
-      "template": "files/server.env"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "net",
-      "type": "network",
-      "name": "de-spiegel"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "server",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "de-spiegel",
-      "image": "registry-api.novox.be/novox/de-spiegel@sha256:e144b72ce9c145870470d765343549f2c60211728cd118b9ff0e4029f36342ba",
-      "network": "de-spiegel",
-      "env-file": [
-        "${dir:state}/server.env"
-      ],
-      "ports": [
-        "35621"
-      ],
-      "secrets-in-environment": "the application's own code reads SMTP_AUTH_USER/PASS from the environment (de-spiegel server/index.js); converting is that repository's change",
-      "names-on-purpose": {
-        "registry-api.novox.be": "built outside the mesh, from the application's own repository, and pulled from the registry that built it; moves when that repository is a build source on the git seat (novox/hq ADR 0155, issue 122)"
-      }
-    }
-  ],
-  "build": {
-    "artifacts": [
-      {
-        "name": "files",
-        "kind": "archive",
-        "from": "files"
-      }
-    ]
-  }
-}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-issues/files/settings.json b/modules/mesh-issues/files/settings.json
index 32e4ed00..2adad465 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-issues/files/settings.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-issues/files/settings.json
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
     "mesh-catalog modules/confluence",
     "mesh-catalog modules/cups",
     "mesh-catalog modules/dbus",
-    "mesh-catalog modules/de-spiegel",
     "mesh-catalog modules/desk-channel",
     "mesh-catalog modules/disk-load",
     "mesh-catalog modules/distribution",
diff --git a/modules/mesh-issues/module.json b/modules/mesh-issues/module.json
index 4036a0c7..e911c2b1 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-issues/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-issues/module.json
@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@
         "mesh-catalog modules/confluence",
         "mesh-catalog modules/cups",
         "mesh-catalog modules/dbus",
-        "mesh-catalog modules/de-spiegel",
         "mesh-catalog modules/desk-channel",
         "mesh-catalog modules/disk-load",
         "mesh-catalog modules/distribution",