diff --git a/src/rodassembler.cc b/src/rodassembler.cc
index 1f0dc62609900b68f929708c2af5b57b0ccdb281..c088ae2368cc2f19ae640f3883a80033f036caeb 100644
--- a/src/rodassembler.cc
+++ b/src/rodassembler.cc
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ energy(const EntityPointer& element,
     // Extract local solution on this element
     const Dune::LagrangeShapeFunctionSet<double, double, 1> & baseSet 
         = Dune::LagrangeShapeFunctions<double, double, 1>::general(element->type(), k);
-    int numOfBaseFct = baseSet.size();
     
     // ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     //   The following two loops are a reduced integration scheme.  We integrate