diff --git a/frontend/app/components/routing/wp-list/wp.list.html b/frontend/app/components/routing/wp-list/wp.list.html
index 2b2be40195..0dcf50fe26 100644
--- a/frontend/app/components/routing/wp-list/wp.list.html
+++ b/frontend/app/components/routing/wp-list/wp.list.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <div class="toolbar-container">
-  <div wp-toolbar class="toolbar">
+  <div class="toolbar">
     <selectable-title
         focus
         selected-title="selectedTitle">
diff --git a/frontend/app/components/routing/wp-show/wp.show.html b/frontend/app/components/routing/wp-show/wp.show.html
index 539e6b81ab..f5484f9e8f 100644
--- a/frontend/app/components/routing/wp-show/wp.show.html
+++ b/frontend/app/components/routing/wp-show/wp.show.html
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
      has-edit-mode="true"
      ng-if="$ctrl.workPackage">
   <div class="toolbar-container">
-    <div wp-toolbar id="toolbar">
+    <div id="toolbar">
       <div class="wp-show--back-button">
           <accessible-by-keyboard execute="$ctrl.goToList()"
                           link-class="work-packages-list-view-button button -small"
diff --git a/frontend/app/components/work-packages/wp-toolbar/wp-toolbar.directive.test.ts b/frontend/app/components/work-packages/wp-toolbar/wp-toolbar.directive.test.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index d91128e539..0000000000
--- a/frontend/app/components/work-packages/wp-toolbar/wp-toolbar.directive.test.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-// -- copyright
-// OpenProject is a project management system.
-// Copyright (C) 2012-2015 the OpenProject Foundation (OPF)
-//
-// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-// modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3.
-//
-// OpenProject is a fork of ChiliProject, which is a fork of Redmine. The copyright follows:
-// Copyright (C) 2006-2013 Jean-Philippe Lang
-// Copyright (C) 2010-2013 the ChiliProject Team
-//
-// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-// modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
-// as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
-// of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-//
-// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-// GNU General Public License for more details.
-//
-// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-// along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-// Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
-//
-// See doc/COPYRIGHT.rdoc for more details.
-// ++
-
-
-describe('toolbar Directive', () => {
-  var compile:() => void, element:ng.IAugmentedJQuery, rootScope, scope:any;
-
-  beforeEach(angular.mock.module('openproject.uiComponents'));
-  beforeEach(angular.mock.module('openproject.templates'));
-
-  beforeEach(angular.mock.inject(($rootScope:ng.IRootScopeService, $compile:ng.ICompileService) => {
-    var html;
-    html = '<div wp-toolbar></div>';
-
-    element = angular.element(html);
-    rootScope = $rootScope;
-    scope = $rootScope.$new();
-    scope.doNotShow = true;
-
-    compile = () => {
-      $compile(element)(scope);
-      scope.$digest();
-    };
-  }));
-
-  describe('element', () => {
-    beforeEach(() => compile());
-
-    it('should preserve its div', () => {
-      expect(element.prop('tagName')).to.equal('DIV');
-    });
-
-    it('should be in a collapsed state', () => {
-      expect(element.is(":visible")).to.be.false;
-    });
-  });
-});
diff --git a/frontend/app/components/work-packages/wp-toolbar/wp-toolbar.directive.ts b/frontend/app/components/work-packages/wp-toolbar/wp-toolbar.directive.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 38825a9f69..0000000000
--- a/frontend/app/components/work-packages/wp-toolbar/wp-toolbar.directive.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-// -- copyright
-// OpenProject is a project management system.
-// Copyright (C) 2012-2015 the OpenProject Foundation (OPF)
-//
-// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-// modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3.
-//
-// OpenProject is a fork of ChiliProject, which is a fork of Redmine. The copyright follows:
-// Copyright (C) 2006-2013 Jean-Philippe Lang
-// Copyright (C) 2010-2013 the ChiliProject Team
-//
-// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-// modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
-// as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
-// of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-//
-// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-// GNU General Public License for more details.
-//
-// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-// along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-// Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
-//
-// See doc/COPYRIGHT.rdoc for more details.
-// ++
-
-angular
-  .module('openproject.uiComponents')
-  .directive('wpToolbar', wpToolbar);
-
-function wpToolbar(): ng.IDirective {
-  return {
-    restrict: 'A',
-
-    link: function(scope: ng.IScope, element: ng.IAugmentedJQuery) {
-
-    }
-  };
-}