Would it be stupidly dangerous to row in the Spree?

honestly the bigger issue is the barges, not the bacteria. the spree through moabit has those long cargo boats going through all day, they don't slow down for anyone and the wake can catch you off guard if you're not paying attention. i've seen a few near-misses at the moabiter brücke where someone drifted into the shipping lane trying to dodge a tour boat

wannsee is a different world for rowing, way more room to mess up without consequences. the wsv club near the pfaueninsel ferry rents singles for like 15 euro an hour and they're pretty chill about experience levels. just don't go on a windy weekend afternoon when the sailing school kids are out, they treat the whole lake like a race course

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ngl the water quality is less of a concern than the actual rowing conditions. the spree near moabiter bruecke has those big tourist boats kicking up wakes and the current can be weird around the bridge pillars. if you're not a solid rower you'll spend more time fighting the boat traffic than getting a workout

wannsee is way better for a beginner, the water's cleaner and there's way less chaos. you can rent a skiff from the wsv am see or one of the clubs near stolpe, they'll usually let you take a single out for an hour. just check the wind forecast first, that lake can get chop when it's breezy

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You're overthinking it. People row in the Spree all the time and they're not dropping dead from plague. The water's gross for sure but it won't kill you unless you chug it. The real problem is you'll look like a total amateur fighting the tourist boats and debris.

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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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