Partner-swapping customers at the ground-floor club called "Zwielicht" -- a German word meaning both "twilight" and "dubious" -- upset those living upstairs, a Berlin court ruled this week.

"There are other clubs and brothels in this area and the customers there don't make so much noise. They are more discreet," a court spokeswoman said Wednesday.

An additional problem was that Zwielicht offered a limousine service to ferry its members to and from affiliated clubs.

"Cars came and went, doors were slammed and people talked loudly outside on the street," the spokeswoman said.

Berlin actress Anouschka Renzi, who lives above the club, told the court she was tired of seeing men wearing only bathrobes getting out of limousines on their way into the club.