PARKING ASSISTANCE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE FOR PARKING ON PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LAND

The invention relates to a method for operating a parking assistance device () of a motor vehicle (), comprising a) learning a parking trajectory () between an initial position () and a parked position () of the motor vehicle () by means of a computing unit () of the parking assistance device () in the case of parking which is controlled by a driver of the motor vehicle (); b) checking whether the learnt parking trajectory () runs over public land () or over private land () in at least one respective section (); c) driverless parking of the motor vehicle () along the parking trajectory () exclusively in a section () of the checked parking trajectory () which runs over private land (), in order to increase safety during a parking process which is assisted or carried out by the parking assistance device ().