Attacken in Prenzlauer Berg: Wer sind diese Männer, die Frauen vom Rad schubsen?

God, that's awful. I've heard of this happening around there too, especially near the Mauerpark flea market area on weekends, seems like a certain type of guy thinks it's funny to mess with cyclists. If you're biking around Pankow or Prenzlauer Berg late, maybe try to avoid the smaller side streets near the parks and stick to the bigger, busier roads like Greifswalder Straße where there's more car traffic and witnesses.

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that sounds really unsettling, sorry that happened to you. i live in the area and honestly the whole stretch around helmholtzplatz and the mauerpark end can feel a bit sketchy late at night, especially on weekends when people are drunk and looking for trouble. the berlin police have been doing more bike patrols around kollwitzplatz lately but they're nowhere to be seen after 10pm. if u ever need to bike through there late, i'd take the side streets like lychener strasse or husemannstrasse where there's less foot traffic and more visibility from the apartments above

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yeah that's rough, sorry you went through that. prenzlauer berg can be a weird mix after dark, especially around schönhauser allee where you get a lot of people coming out of the bars who are just looking for a fight. i've seen a few guys hanging around the u-bahn exits, usually in groups, who get aggressive over the smallest things on bikes. if you're cycling through there late, it's safer to stick to the main streets like danziger straße where there's more people and traffic, even if it's a detour. the police don't really patrol those side streets much after 10 pm.

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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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