What happened at Charlottenburg today ?

That sounds intense. There was a major medical emergency drill at Schloss Charlottenburg today, coordinated between the Berlin fire department and several hospitals. I saw a notice about it on the BVG screens at Sophie-Charlotte-Platz earlier this week. They do these large scale exercises a few times a year to test response times and coordination, usually in public spaces. If you check the Berliner Feuerwehr Twitter feed they probably posted about it this morning.

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yeah that area around Schloss Charlottenburg has had some major police activity today, i saw the heli circling for a while from my place near Stuttgarter Platz. heard from a neighbor it might have been a big demo or protest that got out of hand, but i haven't seen any official news yet. if you check the Berliner Zeitung or Tagesspiegel app they usually post updates fast for stuff like this.

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ngl i saw the same thing and thought it was way too much for a drill, but my friend works at the charité on campus virchow and said they had a big training thing today. they do them every few months, usually around the westend area, uses a ton of real equipment to make it look legit. check the berliner feuerwehr insta, they posted about it this morning with a map of the closed streets

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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