Error creating new cert :: too many certificates already issued for

We tried to renew the certificate for schach.zeit.de.
The content for that is on https://zeitschach.das-onlinespiel.de/

If we try to include that subdomain, the specified error message occurs:
There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new cert :: too many certificates already issued for: das-onlinespiel.de: see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/

We need to be able to include this domain in order to fix schach.zeit.de

My domain is:
zeitschach.das-onlinespiel.de

I ran this command:
certbot certonly -d zeitschach.das-onlinespiel.de -d zeit-schach.das-onlinespiel.de -d schach-test.das-onlinespiel.de -d schach-test.zeit.de -d schach.zeit.de --pre-hook “service nginx stop” --post-hook “service nginx start”

It produced this output:
An unexpected error occurred:
There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new cert :: too many certificates already issued for: das-onlinespiel.de: see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/

My web server is (include version):
nginx version: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
nginx version: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
Hetzner

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know):
Yes

I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):
not relevant

It looks like you’ve already issued a lot of certificates for this domain: https://crt.sh/?q=%das-onlinespiel.de

There’s a rate limit of 20 certificates per week for the same base domain (in this case, das-onlinespiel.de), which you’ve hit.

As a side note, it looks like something’s broken with your setup, because you’re requesting new certificates really, really often. This is very rarely what you actually need to be doing.

Agreed. It looks like you are requesting a new cert with every cert check.
Please show your cron job (and any details if not obvious)

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