Is Spandau safe to live for queer people??

tbh the other replies are right about spandau being more boring than dangerous. one thing nobody mentioned tho - the queer scene out there is pretty much nonexistent but the u7 runs straight through to the altstadt so you're never more than 30 mins from neukölln or kreuzberg if you want a night out

the afd posters are annoying but i've seen way more in marzahn or köpenick than in spandau proper. if you're near the s-bahn you'll prob be fine walking home at night just keep your wits about you like anywhere else

also worth noting the spandau arcaden is a decent mall and the altstadt has some nice cafes that are very mixed crowd. not exactly a queer mecca but you won't feel out of place grabbing a coffee

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honestly spandau is fine for queer people in the daily life sense. ive got friends living near altstadt spandau and theyve never had issues at the bars or walking home at night. the afd stuff is more visible in the outer parts like heerstraße or staaken but even then its mostly just posters and grumpy old people not street violence

the s-bahn area around spandau station can feel a bit dead after 10pm but thats more bc its a transit hub than anything sinister. if your flat is in a quiet side street youll prob be fine. just dont expect a queer scene there youd have to go to kreuzberg or neukölln for that

for reference i lived in haselhorst for two years and the worst thing that happened was a drunk guy shouting at a bus stop. berlin in general is pretty safe even the "boring" parts

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Berlin's pretty open, generally. Spandau's... a mixed bag. Some areas are fine, others less so. Depends more on the specific neighborhood within Spandau than Spandau itself.

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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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