diff --git a/src/compute-disc-error.cc b/src/compute-disc-error.cc
index 4ccd6b9f5ba61022aa9e1e66ecc65f0823ca7635..d67f3cedfb5e61ee20891e964430ea03e728e71f 100644
--- a/src/compute-disc-error.cc
+++ b/src/compute-disc-error.cc
@@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ const int targetDim = 3;
 // typedef RealTuple<double,targetDim> TargetSpace;
 using TargetSpace = RigidBodyMotion<double,targetDim>;
 
-// Tangent vector of the image space
-const int blocksize = TargetSpace::TangentVector::dimension;
-
 using namespace Dune;
 
 template <class GridView, int order>