diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index f6fea9921..f87c11729 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-[submodule "opencv_attic"]
-	path = opencv_attic
-	url = git://code.opencv.org/opencv_attic.git
-	ignore = dirty
 [submodule "Emgu.CV.Extern/tesseract/libtesseract/tesseract-ocr"]
 	path = Emgu.CV.Extern/tesseract/libtesseract/tesseract-ocr
 	url = git://emgucv.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/emgucv/tesseract-ocr
diff --git a/opencv_attic b/opencv_attic
deleted file mode 160000
index 8a7c97016..000000000
--- a/opencv_attic
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 8a7c97016ab402000cbec4e4c6e7370c0698ad50