Driving from Berlin to Frankfurt tomorrow any stops I should make on the way?

If you're driving A9 the whole way, Leipzig is a solid midpoint stop. The city center's pretty compact, grab a currywurst at Curry & Co. near the Markt or check out the Völkerschlachtdenkmal if you want something a bit off the highway.

Another option is the A4 route through Thuringia, which is more scenic but slower. The town of Eisenach has the Wartburg castle right on the way, and there's a decent Autobahnraststätte near Hermsdorfer Kreuz with a bakery that's actually not terrible for a quick bite.

For food on the road, stay away from the big chain rest stops like Tank & Rast if you can. The smaller ones like Raststätte Leutra have better sandwiches and coffee, and they're less crowded.

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honestly if you're taking the A9, stop in Naumburg instead of Leipzig. the cathedral there is unreal and way less touristy, plus the old town has this tiny bakery called Bäckerei Schmidt that makes the best streusel I've ever had. it's like 5 mins off the highway

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Depending on your timeline, you could swing through Dessau and see the Bauhaus building. It's not a huge detour off the A9 and way more interesting than another rest stop.

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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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