diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-docker.yml b/.github/workflows/build-docker.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index f4b698de..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/build-docker.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-name: Update docker image
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # Trigger by hand from the UI
-    inputs:
-      branch:
-        type: choice
-        description: branch to build the image from
-        options:
-          - develop
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - develop
-
-
-jobs:
-  build-and-release-docker-image:
-    name: Builds a dockerimage with the python bindings of preCICE
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    env:
-        docker_username: precice
-    steps:
-      - name: Set branch name for manual triggering
-        if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
-        shell: bash
-        run: echo "BINDINGS_REF=${{ inputs.branch }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-      - name: Set branch name for "on pull request" triggering
-        if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' && github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch'
-        shell: bash
-        run: echo "BINDINGS_REF=${{ github.ref_name }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-      - name: Set PRECICE_TAG and the TAG depending on branch
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          echo "PRECICE_TAG=${{ env.BINDINGS_REF == 'develop' && 'nightly' || env.BINDINGS_REF }}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "TAG=${{ env.BINDINGS_REF }}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "Building TAG: ${{ env.BINDINGS_REF }}"
-      - name: Checkout Repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
-        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v1
-      - name: Login to DockerHub
-        uses: docker/login-action@v1
-        with:
-          username: ${{ env.docker_username }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
-      - name: Build and push Dockerfile
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v2
-        with:
-          push: true
-          file: "./tools/releasing/packaging/docker/Dockerfile"
-          tags: ${{ env.docker_username }}/python-bindings:${{ env.TAG }}
-          build-args: |
-            PRECICE_TAG=${{ env.PRECICE_TAG }}
-            PYTHON_BINDINGS_REF=${{ env.BINDINGS_REF }}
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 932ab2a4..fb15f4e2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## latest
+
+* Discontinued maintainment of Docker image `precice/python-bindings`. Python packages should be installed using virtual environments instead. Please refer to `README.md` for further information. https://github.com/precice/python-bindings/pull/228
+
 ## 3.1.2
 
 * Restrict to numpy < 2 for better compatibility with CI pipeline. https://github.com/precice/python-bindings/pull/213
diff --git a/tools/releasing/packaging/docker/Dockerfile b/tools/releasing/packaging/docker/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index e3d6c3bf..00000000
--- a/tools/releasing/packaging/docker/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-# Dockerfile to build a ubuntu image containing the installed Debian package of a release 
-ARG PRECICE_TAG=nightly
-ARG from=precice/precice:${PRECICE_TAG}
-FROM $from
-
-USER root
-# Installing necessary dependencies
-RUN apt-get -qq update && apt-get -qq install \
-    apt-utils && \
-    apt-get -qq install \
-    software-properties-common \
-    git \
-    sudo \
-    python3-dev \
-    python3-pip \
-    pkg-config && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-USER precice
-
-# Upgrade pip to newest version (pip version from 18.04 apt-get is outdated)
-RUN python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade pip
-
-# Rebuild image if force_rebuild after that command
-ARG PYTHON_BINDINGS_REF=develop
-
-# Builds the precice python bindings for python3
-RUN pip3 install --user git+https://github.com/precice/python-bindings.git@${PYTHON_BINDINGS_REF}