diff --git a/src/t8_forest/t8_forest_adapt.cxx b/src/t8_forest/t8_forest_adapt.cxx
index d157502ae8..5b8e2caf9f 100644
--- a/src/t8_forest/t8_forest_adapt.cxx
+++ b/src/t8_forest/t8_forest_adapt.cxx
@@ -630,6 +630,13 @@ t8_forest_adapt (t8_forest_t forest)
       /* Possibly shrink the telements array to the correct size */
       t8_element_array_resize (telements, el_inserted);
 
+      /* It is not supported to delete all elements from a tree.
+       * In this case, we will abort. */
+      SC_CHECK_ABORTF (el_inserted != 0,
+                       "ERROR: All elements of tree %i were removed. Removing all elements of a tree "
+                       "is currently not supported. See also https://github.com/DLR-AMR/t8code/issues/1137.",
+                       ltree_id);
+
       /* clean up */
       T8_FREE (elements);
       T8_FREE (elements_from);
diff --git a/test/t8_forest_incomplete/t8_gtest_empty_local_tree.cxx b/test/t8_forest_incomplete/t8_gtest_empty_local_tree.cxx
index 63584309b6..5c5e9af2d0 100644
--- a/test/t8_forest_incomplete/t8_gtest_empty_local_tree.cxx
+++ b/test/t8_forest_incomplete/t8_gtest_empty_local_tree.cxx
@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@
  * The two resulting forests must be equal.
  */
 
-class local_tree: public testing::TestWithParam<t8_eclass_t> {
+/** This test covers the functionality described in Issue: https://github.com/DLR-AMR/t8code/issues/1137
+ * Remove `DISABLED_` from the name of the Test(suite) or use `--gtest_also_run_disabled_tests` when you start working on the issue. */
+class DISABLED_local_tree: public testing::TestWithParam<t8_eclass_t> {
  protected:
   void
   SetUp () override
@@ -64,6 +66,7 @@ class local_tree: public testing::TestWithParam<t8_eclass_t> {
 
     forest = t8_forest_new_uniform (t8_cmesh_new_from_class (eclass, sc_MPI_COMM_WORLD), t8_scheme_new_default_cxx (),
                                     MPI_size, 0, sc_MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+    /* TODO: The level does not need to be as big as MPI_SIZE, only as big so that each process has at least one element */
 
     if (MPI_size == 1 || MPI_size > MAX_NUM_RANKS) {
       GTEST_SKIP ();
@@ -123,7 +126,7 @@ t8_adapt_forest (t8_forest_t forest_from, t8_forest_adapt_t adapt_fn, int do_ada
   return forest_new;
 }
 
-TEST_P (local_tree, test_empty_local_tree)
+TEST_P (DISABLED_local_tree, test_empty_local_tree)
 {
   /* Number of instances/testcases */
   const uint32_t num_instances = 1 << MPI_size;
@@ -157,5 +160,5 @@ TEST_P (local_tree, test_empty_local_tree)
   }
 }
 
-INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P (t8_gtest_empty_local_tree, local_tree, testing::Range (T8_ECLASS_LINE, T8_ECLASS_COUNT),
-                          print_eclass);
+INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P (t8_gtest_empty_local_tree, DISABLED_local_tree,
+                          testing::Range (T8_ECLASS_LINE, T8_ECLASS_COUNT), print_eclass);