diff --git a/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/backend/implementation/MySQL/DatabaseUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/backend/implementation/MySQL/DatabaseUtils.java
index c123b467e2d7bbf39a23b72296d05be1b3fc4f28..f7d364ae6376524ef892de3353d699547417717e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/backend/implementation/MySQL/DatabaseUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/backend/implementation/MySQL/DatabaseUtils.java
@@ -93,10 +93,6 @@ public class DatabaseUtils {
         && !p.isDatatypeOverride()
         && (!p.hasProperties() || hasUniquePropertyId(p, e))
         && !(p.getDatatype() instanceof AbstractCollectionDatatype)) {
-      // this property can be represented without any replacement. We explicitly
-      // setReplacement(null) because there is a corner case (related to the inheritance of
-      // properties) where there is a replacement present which belongs to the parent entity, see
-      // https://gitlab.com/caosdb/caosdb-server/-/issues/216.
       stage1Inserts.add(p);
     } else {
       Replacement r = new Replacement(p);