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Any chance the fireworks this year will be less horrible than previous years?
Edit:… Has anyone heard anything about any measures against fireworks this year in Berlin? If it's exactlly like last year(s) I need to book my trip now so that I stay away the worsts parts of it :D
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Thanks everyone, just wanted to make sure I haven't missed any news etc. Booking my trip now. Have a good one and stay away from anyone who drinks and uses fireworks!
yeah it's the same every year unfortunately, no new bans or restrictions. if you want peace and quiet your best bet is actually heading out to the dorf areas around brandenburg, places like wandlitz or bernau are dead silent on silvester and you can get there by regional train from berlin
if you're really set on staying in the city, look for a place near a big forest like grunewald or the teufelsberg area. it's not dead silent but way quieter than anywhere with buildings. just make sure your windows are closed tight though
No new rules this year, it'll be the same chaos. If you really want to avoid it, book somewhere outside the Ring, like Pankow or further out in Spandau, not just a different neighbourhood in Mitte. The S-Bahn is basically a war zone on Silvester night, so plan to be wherever you're staying by early evening and don't expect to move until New Year's Day afternoon.
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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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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