diff --git a/recipes/spiegelde.recipe b/recipes/spiegelde.recipe
index 7a79d9622f..3c16de8aa1 100644
--- a/recipes/spiegelde.recipe
+++ b/recipes/spiegelde.recipe
@@ -6,10 +6,6 @@ __copyright__ = '2009, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
 spiegel.de
 '''
 
-import time
-from contextlib import closing
-from calibre import as_unicode
-from calibre.web.feeds import feed_from_xml, Feed
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 class Spiegel_ger(BasicNewsRecipe):
@@ -46,33 +42,3 @@ class Spiegel_ger(BasicNewsRecipe):
 
     feeds          = [(u'Spiegel Online', u'http://www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen/index.rss')]
 
-    def parse_feeds(self):
-        title, url = self.feeds[0]
-        self.report_progress(0, _('Fetching feed')+' %s...'%(title if title else url))
-        parsed_feeds = []
-        try:
-            with closing(self.browser.open(url)) as s:
-                raw = s.read()
-            raw = raw.replace(b'<guid>http://www.spiegel.de</guid>', b'')
-
-            parsed_feeds.append(feed_from_xml(raw, title=title, log=self.log, oldest_article=self.oldest_article,
-                                        max_articles_per_feed=self.max_articles_per_feed,
-                                        get_article_url=self.get_article_url))
-            if (self.delay > 0):
-                time.sleep(self.delay)
-        except Exception as err:
-            feed = Feed()
-            msg = 'Failed feed: %s'%(title if title else url)
-            feed.populate_from_preparsed_feed(msg, [])
-            feed.description = as_unicode(err)
-            parsed_feeds.append(feed)
-            self.log.exception(msg)
-
-        remove = [f for f in parsed_feeds if len(f) == 0 and
-                self.remove_empty_feeds]
-        for f in remove:
-            parsed_feeds.remove(f)
-
-        return parsed_feeds
-
-