Roll bar configuration for a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle with a roll bar configuration of this type

A roll bar configuration for a motor vehicle has a cross-member and two roll bars which are mounted on the cross-member in respective pivot axes. The roll bars are each formed as a single part and so as to be stiff per se and can be shifted from a retracted inoperative position into an erected protective position about the pivot axes. The pivot axes are disposed-as seen in the direction of the width of the motor vehicle-at a distance from each other on the cross-member. The roll bar configuration, which takes up a small installation space in the direction of the vehicle height is distinguished in that the roll bars are arranged in the inoperative position-as seen in the vertical direction of the vehicle-level with the pivot axes or on the cross-member there above.