Hi Marcel,
your relationship is a uni-directional OneToMany, which must be annotated @OneToMany. Uni-directional OneToMany relationships are mapped to a join table by default. After commiting
tx.begin;
em.merge(garage);
em.commit;
tx.close
the join table entry should be removed from the database.
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