diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml b/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
index 3e6a4f51..86a11e7e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
@@ -8,120 +8,8 @@ on:
       - "*"
 
 jobs:
-  setup_for_spack:
-    name: Run setup.py phases needed by spack
-    needs: [setup_test]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container:
-      image: precice/precice:develop
-      options: --user root
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout Repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: Install & upgrade pip3
-        run: |
-          apt-get -yy update
-          apt-get install -y python3-pip pkg-config
-          rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-          pip3 install --upgrade --user pip
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          pip3 install --user toml
-          python3 -c 'import toml; c = toml.load("pyproject.toml"); print("\n".join(c["build-system"]["requires"]))' | pip3 install -r /dev/stdin
-      - name: Run setup.py phases needed by spack
-        run: |
-          python3 setup.py install_lib
-          python3 setup.py build_ext
-
-  setup_install:
-    name: Run setup install
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container:
-      image: precice/precice:develop
-      options: --user root
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout Repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: Install pip3, pkgconfig and upgrade pip3
-        run: |
-          apt-get -yy update
-          apt-get install -y python3-pip pkg-config
-          rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-          pip3 install --upgrade --user pip
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          pip3 install --user toml
-          python3 -c 'import toml; c = toml.load("pyproject.toml"); print("\n".join(c["build-system"]["requires"]))' | pip3 install -r /dev/stdin
-      - name: Run setup install
-        run:  python3 setup.py install --user
-      - name: Test install
-        run: |
-          export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
-          python3 -c "import precice"
-
-  setup_install_single_version_externally_managed:
-    name: Run setup install --single-version-externally-managed (for spack)
-    needs: [setup_install]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container:
-      image: precice/precice:develop
-      options: --user root
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout Repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: Install pip3, pkgconfig and upgrade pip3
-        run: |
-          su root
-          apt-get -yy update
-          apt-get install -y python3-pip pkg-config
-          rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-          pip3 install --upgrade --user pip
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          pip3 install --user toml
-          python3 -c 'import toml; c = toml.load("pyproject.toml"); print("\n".join(c["build-system"]["requires"]))' | pip3 install -r /dev/stdin
-      - name: Run setup install --single-version-externally-managed
-        run:  python3 setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed --root=/
-
-  setup_test:
-    name: Run setup test
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout Repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - uses: actions/setup-python@v1
-      - name: Install OpenMPI, CMake, Boost library, Eigen and pkg-config
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get -yy update
-          sudo apt-get install -y libopenmpi-dev cmake libboost-all-dev libeigen3-dev pkg-config
-          sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-      - uses: BSFishy/pip-action@v1
-        with:
-          packages: toml
-      - name: Checkout precice and make required files discoverable
-        run: |
-          git clone --branch develop https://github.com/precice/precice.git precice-core
-          mkdir -p precice
-          cp precice-core/src/precice/Participant.hpp precice/Participant.hpp
-          cp precice-core/src/precice/Tooling.hpp precice/Tooling.hpp
-          cp precice-core/src/precice/Tooling.hpp precice/Tooling.cpp
-          cd precice-core
-          mkdir build && cd build
-          cmake .. -DPRECICE_FEATURE_MPI_COMMUNICATION=OFF -DPRECICE_FEATURE_PETSC_MAPPING=OFF -DPRECICE_FEATURE_PYTHON_ACTIONS=OFF -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          python3 -c 'import toml; c = toml.load("pyproject.toml"); print("\n".join(c["build-system"]["requires"]))' | pip3 install -r /dev/stdin
-      - name: Run setup test
-        env:
-          PKG_CONFIG_PATH: "precice-core/build"
-          PKG_CONFIG_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_PATH: 1
-        run: |
-          export CFLAGS=-I$GITHUB_WORKSPACE
-          python3 setup.py test
-
   pip_install:
     name: Run pip install
-    needs: [setup_test]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     container:
       image: precice/precice:develop
@@ -144,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
 
   solverdummy_test:
     name: Run solverdummy
-    needs: [setup_install, setup_test]
+    needs: [pip_install]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     container:
       image: precice/precice:develop
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-env.yml b/.github/workflows/build-env.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index cf44d754..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/build-env.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-name: Update build environment
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:      # Trigger by hand from the UI
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 0 * * 0'   # Schedule it every Sunday
-
-jobs:
-  build-spack-pyprecice-deps:
-    name: Builds the baseimage for spack providing dependencies
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout Repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: Set up Docker
-        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v1
-      - name: Login to registry
-        uses: docker/login-action@v1
-        with:
-          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
-      - name: Build and push
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v2
-        with:
-          push: true
-          context: .
-          file: spack/ci-spack-pyprecice-deps-2404.dockerfile
-          tags: precice/ci-spack-pyprecice-deps-2404
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-spack.yml b/.github/workflows/build-spack.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ff0b6cb..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/build-spack.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-name: Build Spack
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - "*"
-  pull_request:
-    branches:
-      - "*"
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 4 * * 1'   # Schedule it every Sunday
-
-jobs:
-  build_spack:
-    name: build_spack
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 15
-    container: precice/ci-spack-pyprecice-deps-2404
-    defaults:
-      run:
-        shell: "bash --login -eo pipefail {0}"
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout Repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: Move Package Script
-        run: |
-          cp -r spack/repo/packages/py-pyprecice/ /py-pyprecice-repo/packages/
-      - name: Try to build py-pyprecice@develop with spack and test it
-        run: |
-          . /opt/spack/share/spack/setup-env.sh
-          spack env activate ci && spack arch
-          spack remove py-pyprecice
-          spack add pyprecice.test.py-pyprecice@develop && spack develop pyprecice.test.py-pyprecice@develop
-          spack install && spack find
-          spack load py-pyprecice
-          BINDINGS_VERSION=$(python3 -c "import precice; print(precice.__version__)") && echo "Installed version of bindings is ${BINDINGS_VERSION}"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 92898c61..982e7852 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -59,66 +59,12 @@ If preCICE (the C++ library) was installed in a custom prefix, or only built but
 * `LIBRARY_PATH`, `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` to the library location, or `$prefix/lib`
 * `CPATH` either to the `src` directory or the `$prefix/include`
 
-The preCICE documentation provides more informaiton on [linking preCICE](https://precice.org/installation-linking.html).
+The preCICE documentation provides more information on [linking preCICE](https://precice.org/installation-linking.html).
 
 ### Using Spack
 
 You can also install the python language bindings for preCICE via Spack by installing the Spack package `py-pyprecice`. Refer to [our installation guide for preCICE via Spack](https://precice.org/installation-spack.html) for getting started with Spack.
 
-### Using setup.py
-
-#### preCICE system installs
-
-In this directory, execute:
-
-```bash
-$ python3 setup.py install --user
-```
-
-#### preCICE at custom location (setting PATHS)
-
-see above. Then run
-
-```bash
-$ python3 setup.py install --user
-```
-
-#### preCICE at custom location (explicit include path, library path)
-
-1. Install cython and other dependencies via pip3
-
-   ```bash
-   $ pip3 install --user setuptools wheel cython packaging numpy
-   ```
-
-2. Open terminal in this folder.
-3. Build the bindings
-
-   ```bash
-   $ python3 setup.py build_ext --include-dirs=$PRECICE_ROOT/src --library-dirs=$PRECICE_ROOT/build/last
-   ```
-
-   **Options:**
-   * `--include-dirs=`, default: `''`
-     Path to the headers of preCICE, point to the sources `$PRECICE_ROOT/src`, or the your custom install prefix `$prefix/include`.
-
-   **NOTES:**
-
-   * If you have built preCICE using CMake, you can pass the path to the CMake binary directory using `--library-dirs`.
-   * It is recommended to use preCICE as a shared library here.
-
-4. Install the bindings
-
-   ```bash
-   $ python3 setup.py install --user
-   ```
-
-5. Clean-up *optional*
-
-   ```bash
-   $ python3 setup.py clean --all
-   ```
-
 ## Test the installation
 
 Update `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` such that python can find `precice.so`
diff --git a/spack/README.md b/spack/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a8f92f4c..00000000
--- a/spack/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-# Spack package: py-pyprecice
-
-The Spack package `py-pyprecice` provides the python bindings via Spack and was submitted via [pull request 19558](https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/19558) in the Spack repository. This folder contains the Spack package script that can be used for testing whether the Spack installation works.
-
-## Docker image `precice/ci-spack-pyprecice-deps-2404`
-
-The workflow `build-spack-pyprecice-deps` in `.github/workflows/build-env.yml` creates the image `precice/ci-spack-pyprecice-deps-2404`. This image contains all dependencies of `py-pyprecice@develop`.
-
-The workflow `build_spack` in `.github/workflows/build-spack.yml` uses the image `precice/ci-spack-pyprecice-deps-2404` to reduce build time. The workflow uses the `package.py` from this repository to build the latest version of the bindings and run a small test on this version.
-
-## When a new Spack release is necessary
-
-* Add checksum of newest version(s) to the [package recipe in `package.py`](https://github.com/precice/python-bindings/blob/develop/spack/repo/packages/py-pyprecice/package.py). You can get checksum for any released version by running `spack checksum py-pyprecice`.
-* Check whether the new release works locally. You can add the Spack repo in this repository and do the following:
-
-  1. Add the repository to your Spack installation if you have not done that before. You can check the repositories available with your Spack installation via `spack repo list`. If there is a repository called `pyprecice.test`, check whether it points to the correct path. The correct path is the `spack/repo` directory of python-bindings repository. If the repository is missing, add it via
-
-     ```text
-     spack repo add ${REPOSITORY_ROOT}/spack/repo
-     ```
-
-  2. Build the new python bindings. Usually, we use a new Spack environment. This is created and loaded via
-
-     ```text
-     spack env create pyprecicetest-VERSIONNUMBER
-     spack env activate -p pyprecicetest-VERSIONNUMBER
-     ```
-
-     Note that the dots `.` of the version number are not allowed in the name of Spack environments. One could, e.g., create an environment named `pyprecicetest-2_0_0_1` instead of `pyprecicetest-2.0.0.1`.
-
-  3. We add the `py-pyprecice` package from our repository to the environment via
-
-     ```text
-     spack add pyprecice.test.py-pyprecice@VERSIONNUMBER
-     ```
-
-     This ensures that one uses the local repository which has the namespace `pyprecice.test` when installing `py-precice`. Note that when speciying the `VERSIONNUMBER` you use the actual version number with dots, e.g., `2.0.0.1`, but you have to drop the `v` character from the versioning of the bindings.
-
-  4. Concretize the software packages
-
-     ```text
-     spack concretize -f
-     ```
-
-     and check whether everything looks good. You might want to edit the environment of the Spack environment (the `spack.yaml` file) and enforce combined concretization by adding `concretization: together` at the end of the file. You might want to double check whether the correct repository is used by calling
-
-     ```text
-     spack spec -N py-pyprecice@VERSIONNUMBER
-     ```
-
-     It will print the concretization and prefixes each packages with the repository it will be installed from.
-
-  5. Run `spack install` to actually install the package.
-
-  6. If the installation went through, check the installation by running `python3 -c "import precice; print(precice.__version__)"`. This should print the version number of the Python bindings you have installed. *Note*: In order to make the bindings available one might have to reload the environment via
-
-     ```text
-     despacktivate
-     spack env activate -p pyprecicetest-VERSIONNUMBER
-     ```
-
-  7. Ideally one runs the solverdummy with the freshly installed Python bindings.
-
-* Use `package.py` together with the patches provided in `python-bindings/spack/repo/packages/py-pyprecice` to [create a pull request for Spack](https://github.com/spack/spack/compare) and submit the new release.
-* After the pull request in the Spack repository is merged, merge the current package configuration into the repository of the Python bindings if necessery.
diff --git a/spack/ci-spack-pyprecice-deps-2404.dockerfile b/spack/ci-spack-pyprecice-deps-2404.dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 13051242..00000000
--- a/spack/ci-spack-pyprecice-deps-2404.dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-# Build stage with Spack pre-installed and ready to be used
-FROM spack/ubuntu-noble:latest
-
-# Mount the current sources into the build container
-# and build the default environment
-ADD ./spack/repo /py-pyprecice-repo
-RUN spack --color=always env create --without-view ci && \
-    spack --color=always -e ci repo add /py-pyprecice-repo && \
-    spack --color=always -e ci add pyprecice.test.py-pyprecice@develop target=x86_64 && \
-    spack --color=always -e ci install --fail-fast --only=dependencies && \
-    spack --color=always clean -a
diff --git a/spack/repo/packages/py-pyprecice/package.py b/spack/repo/packages/py-pyprecice/package.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ee79d6e..00000000
--- a/spack/repo/packages/py-pyprecice/package.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
-# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
-
-from spack.package import *
-
-
-class PyPyprecice(PythonPackage):
-    """
-    This package provides python language bindings for the
-    C++ library preCICE.
-    """
-
-    homepage = "https://precice.org"
-    git = "https://github.com/precice/python-bindings.git"
-    url = "https://github.com/precice/python-bindings/archive/v3.1.1.tar.gz"
-    maintainers("ajaust", "BenjaminRodenberg", "IshaanDesai")
-
-    # Always prefer final version of release candidate
-    version("develop", branch="develop")
-    version("3.1.1", sha256="50a0f1cbdb8fc362c22d316151c0e757958ff136a094e63b9b82d045d01d19c7")
-    version("3.1.0", sha256="8d9bd9e28859001ab503a1e2f90e54b3c000079f04c14dc7c0c04c61c5666641")
-    version("3.0.0.0", sha256="7e2c4b106a231b0df2a430d86d4a7b295f85adbe3478c425f863d1a4bebee9f7")
-    version("2.5.0.4", sha256="7f9449573eb52ce48ca3f0ab35529ea0064942487842515ae0a2c9299aa0f0db")
-    version("2.5.0.3", sha256="b983229b9fdf6bd4605ae8710985eb681025f6fb28ad8d7736cdf92593eef6df")
-    version("2.5.0.2", sha256="6d7b78da830db6c5133b44617196ee90be8c7d6c8e14c8994a4800b3d4856416")
-    version("2.5.0.1", sha256="d7c666e6ebff9e007c3703d8e3c3fcdf0f45289e36c2c17223b3aedc3259ab6c")
-    version("2.5.0.0", sha256="9f55a22594bb602cde8a5987217728569f16d9576ea53ed00497e9046a2e1794")
-    version("2.4.0.0", sha256="e80d16417b8ce1fdac80c988cb18ae1e16f785c5eb1035934d8b37ac18945242")
-    version("2.3.0.1", sha256="ed4e48729b662680beaa4ee2a9aff724a79e760534c6c58181be739988da2789")
-    version("2.2.1.1", sha256="139bac5077c3807e1b7b83d8d0da5ca0fc8c17393fd0df4bc5999cd63a351b78")
-    version("2.2.0.2", sha256="2287185f9ad7500dced53459543d27bb66bd2438c2e4bf81ee3317e6a00513d5")
-    version("2.2.0.1", sha256="229625e2e6df03987ababce5abe2021b0974cbe5a588b936a9cba653f4908d4b")
-    version("2.1.1.2", sha256="363eb3eeccf964fd5ee87012c1032353dd1518662868f2b51f04a6d8a7154045")
-    version("2.1.1.1", sha256="972f574549344b6155a8dd415b6d82512e00fa154ca25ae7e36b68d4d2ed2cf4")
-    version("2.1.0.1", sha256="ac5cb7412c6b96b08a04fa86ea38e52d91ea739a3bd1c209baa93a8275e4e01a")
-    version("2.0.2.1", sha256="c6fca26332316de041f559aecbf23122a85d6348baa5d3252be4ddcd5e94c09a")
-    version("2.0.1.1", sha256="2791e7c7e2b04bc918f09f3dfca2d3371e6f8cbb7e57c82bd674703f4fa00be7")
-    version("2.0.0.2", sha256="5f055d809d65ec2e81f4d001812a250f50418de59990b47d6bcb12b88da5f5d7")
-    version("2.0.0.1", sha256="96eafdf421ec61ad6fcf0ab1d3cf210831a815272984c470b2aea57d4d0c9e0e")
-
-    for ver in [
-        "develop",
-        "3.1",  # only consider major.minor from 3.1.0. See https://github.com/precice/python-bindings/pull/199
-        "3.0.0",
-        "2.5.0",
-        "2.4.0",
-        "2.3.0",
-        "2.2.1",
-        "2.2.0",
-        "2.1.1",
-        "2.1.0",
-        "2.0.2",
-        "2.0.1",
-        "2.0.0",
-    ]:
-        depends_on("precice@" + ver, when="@" + ver)
-
-    depends_on("python@3:", type=("build", "link", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-setuptools@61:71", type="build")
-    depends_on("py-numpy@:1", type=("build", "link", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-mpi4py", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-cython@0.29:", type="build")
-    depends_on("py-packaging", type="build")
-    depends_on("py-pip@19.0.0:", type="build")
-    depends_on("py-pkgconfig", type="build", when="@2.5:")
-
-    @when("@:2.1")
-    def patch(self):
-        filter_file("distutils.command.install", "setuptools.command.install", "setup.py")
diff --git a/spack/repo/repo.yaml b/spack/repo/repo.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index e484875a..00000000
--- a/spack/repo/repo.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-repo:
-  namespace: 'pyprecice.test'