The educational standards’ demand to promote reflexive mapping competence in the Geography classroom and the omnipresence of maps in everyday life stress the need to sensitize students for a critical approach towards the medium with a view to its subjective nature. As clarified by previous studies, the promotion of reflexive mapping competence is disregarded in the Geography classroom. With regard to these findings, the present work investigates the relevance of reflexive mapping competence from teachers’ point of view as a research desideratum. The marginal relevance in school practice can be confirmed by means of problem-centered interviews and qualitative content analysis. Insufficient preconditions on the part of both students and teachers, the administrative and educational-political requirements as well as the lack of appropriate teaching material have been identified as the main reasons.