diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8bff0b86e..b5f279a90 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -261,24 +261,6 @@
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
-
-		<!--
-		  we don't use lombok in Spring Data Elasticsearch anymore. But the dependency is set in the parent project, and so the
-		  lombok compiler stuff is executed regardless of the fact that we don't need it.
-		  On AdoptOpenJdk 16.0.0 this leads to an error, so the project does not build.
-		  Therefore we replace lombok with a jar - that just contains an empty file - that lives in a local maven repository in
-		  src/test/resources/local-maven-repo/
-		  It was installed with
-		   mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=org.projectlombok -DartifactId=lombok -Dversion=999999 -Durl=file:./src/test/resources/local-maven-repo/ -DrepositoryId=local-maven-repo -DupdateReleaseInfo=true -Dfile=path/to/empty.jar
-		-->
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
-			<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
-			<!--suppress MavenPackageUpdate -->
-			<version>999999</version>
-			<scope>test</scope>
-		</dependency>
-
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.skyscreamer</groupId>
 			<artifactId>jsonassert</artifactId>