Why does it smell like onion in Treptower Park?

That's the Bärlauch. It's all over the woods in Berlin this time of year, Treptower Park just has a lot of it because the forest floor there is so damp and shaded. If you want to avoid the smell, stick to the main paths along the Spree where it doesn't grow as thick.

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I've noticed it too, especially in the mornings. There's also a lot of wild garlic (Bärlauch) growing in the damp spots under the trees, especially near the Rosengarten area. When people walk through it or the city does some clearing, the smell gets pretty strong. It's not as intense as the hogweed, but it's more widespread in the forested parts.

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It's not just Treptower Park, you'll get that same oniony smell all along the Landwehrkanal and in the Volkspark Friedrichshain this time of year. The Bärlauch is so thick in some spots that the whole ground looks like a green carpet, and it really hits you when the sun warms up the leaves in the afternoon. If you want to avoid it entirely, stick to the paved paths or head over to the more open areas near the Spreepark entrance where the forest floor gets more sunlight and the garlic doesn't grow as much.

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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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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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