diff --git a/dune/fufem/blockmatrixview.hh b/dune/fufem/blockmatrixview.hh
index 7eec4613c0d43f61162fdf29129d88ef8c8d8e2e..a7109e3c1c1c6c65c7bebce86d0eefe6f95e5f2a 100644
--- a/dune/fufem/blockmatrixview.hh
+++ b/dune/fufem/blockmatrixview.hh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #include <dune/istl/matrixindexset.hh>
 
 template <class MatrixType>
-class BlockMatrixView
+class DUNE_DEPRECATED_MSG("This class is deprecated, please use BlockMatrixView.hh from dune-matrix-vector") BlockMatrixView
 {
 public: