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We're thrilled to announce that we've found some victims to join the moderating team! They've signed away their freedom and sanity to help us manage this paradi… 👹 Attention, r/berlin inhabitants! 👹
We're thrilled to announce that we've found some victims to join the moderating team! They've signed away their freedom and sanity to help us manage this paradise.
Please show them the same love and respect you show the rest of us. ♥
Now, let's give a big applause to:
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congrats new mods, you're about to discover that berlin modding is 90% arguing about what actually counts as "berlin content" and 10% deleting "is this area safe?" posts. good luck with that
oh nice, welcome new mods. hope you guys have thick skin and a good sense of humor, you'll need both here. fwiw the old mods do a decent job keeping the chaos in check, so you're in good hands. just remember, the real test is handling the "where can I find a döner at 3am" posts in winter.
What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
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.
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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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
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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