diff --git a/dumux/implicit/cellcentered/tpfa/propertydefaults.hh b/dumux/implicit/cellcentered/tpfa/propertydefaults.hh
index 807178923c1b93d50b58bddcba8feb15bd9639f7..917bfc171fa30988f09c245bed23ab17a2ebc08c 100644
--- a/dumux/implicit/cellcentered/tpfa/propertydefaults.hh
+++ b/dumux/implicit/cellcentered/tpfa/propertydefaults.hh
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ namespace Dumux {
 // forward declarations
 template<class TypeTag> class CCLocalResidual;
 template<class TypeTag> class CCElementBoundaryTypes;
-template<class TypeTag> class FVElementGeometry;
 
 namespace Properties {
 //! Set the default for the FVElementGeometry vector