diff --git a/CMake/PackageDepends/MITK_OpenCV_Config.cmake b/CMake/PackageDepends/MITK_OpenCV_Config.cmake
index 9a5e92493a..e8e59a903c 100644
--- a/CMake/PackageDepends/MITK_OpenCV_Config.cmake
+++ b/CMake/PackageDepends/MITK_OpenCV_Config.cmake
@@ -1,56 +1,7 @@
-macro(REMOVE_LAST_PATH_ELEMENT_IF_EQUALS INPUT_VAR TARGET_VALUE)
-  STRING( REPLACE "/" ";" INPUT_VARLIST ${${INPUT_VAR}} )
-  LIST( LENGTH INPUT_VARLIST INPUT_VARLIST_LENGTH )
-
-  SET(INPUT_VARLIST_LAST_INDEX ${INPUT_VARLIST_LENGTH})
-  MATH( EXPR INPUT_VARLIST_LAST_INDEX "${INPUT_VARLIST_LENGTH}-1" )
-  LIST( GET INPUT_VARLIST ${INPUT_VARLIST_LAST_INDEX} INPUT_VARLAST_ELEMENT )
-
-  if(INPUT_VARLAST_ELEMENT MATCHES "^${TARGET_VALUE}$")
-    LIST( REMOVE_AT INPUT_VARLIST ${INPUT_VARLIST_LAST_INDEX} )
-  endif()
-
-  set(NEW_VAR "")
-  foreach(folderPart ${INPUT_VARLIST})
-    if(NOT NEW_VAR)
-      if(NOT WIN32)
-        set(folderPart "/${folderPart}")
-      endif()
-      set(NEW_VAR "${folderPart}")
-    else()
-      set(NEW_VAR "${NEW_VAR}/${folderPart}")
-    endif()
-  endforeach()
-
-  set(${INPUT_VAR} ${NEW_VAR})
-endmacro()
-
-# bug in opencv 2.4.2 and mitk: if we have a submodule OpenCV_LIB_DIR_OPT and
-# OpenCV_LIB_DIR_DBG is cached when find_package is called
-# resulting in wrong windows output paths, e.g. C:\OpenCV\lib\Release\Release
-# removing last Release and Debug string manually to fix it
-if( OpenCV_LIB_DIR )
-
-  # remove the Release/Debug in <path>\Release and <path>\Debug
-  # of OpenCV_LIB_DIR_OPT and OpenCV_LIB_DIR_DBG here
-  REMOVE_LAST_PATH_ELEMENT_IF_EQUALS(OpenCV_LIB_DIR_DBG Debug)
-  #message("OpenCV_LIB_DIR_DBG: ${OpenCV_LIB_DIR_DBG}")
-
-  set(OpenCV_LIB_DIR_OPT ${OpenCV_LIB_DIR_DBG})
-  #message("OpenCV_LIB_DIR_OPT: ${OpenCV_LIB_DIR_OPT}")
-
-  REMOVE_LAST_PATH_ELEMENT_IF_EQUALS(OpenCV_3RDPARTY_LIB_DIR_DBG Debug)
-  #message("OpenCV_3RDPARTY_LIB_DIR_DBG: ${OpenCV_3RDPARTY_LIB_DIR_DBG}")
-
-  set(OpenCV_3RDPARTY_LIB_DIR_OPT ${OpenCV_3RDPARTY_LIB_DIR_DBG})
-  #message("OpenCV_3RDPARTY_LIB_DIR_OPT: ${OpenCV_3RDPARTY_LIB_DIR_OPT}")
-
-endif()
-
 list(APPEND ALL_LIBRARIES ${OpenCV_LIBS})
 list(APPEND ALL_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES ${OpenCV_INCLUDE_DIRS})
 
 # adding option for videoinput library on windows (for directshow based frame grabbing)
 if(WIN32)
   option(MITK_USE_videoInput "Use videoInput (DirectShow wrapper) library" OFF)
 endif(WIN32)