Is this hotel haunted?

fwiw the titanic is built into a block that used to house the reichsbank's gold reserves, so there's literally tons of old steel and concrete in the walls absorbing weird sounds and smells. the pipe tobacco thing is actually pretty common around hausvogteiplatz, there's a corner store on oberwallstraße that still sells the same brand the gdr officials smoked, and the smell just sticks to the limestone facades when it's damp. if you want a real ghost story, swing by the friedrichstadtpalast on friedrichstraße, the old building had a fire in the 80s and people swear they hear audience applause from empty rooms

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tbh the tobacco smell is the weirdest part cause that building was a bank and then a GDR government office before it got turned into a hotel. my friend's dad actually worked there in the 80s and said the old director used to smoke a pipe in his office on the top floor. no idea if that's connected but it's a fun bit of history. the footsteps are prob just the elevators, they make this weird creaking sound that echoes through the whole building at night

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I've stayed there twice, and both times I had that same feeling in the hallways near the stairwell. The building was part of the old Prussian State Bank, and there are these heavy vault doors still embedded in the basement walls near the spa area. The pipe tobacco thing is interesting because the GDR's Ministry for State Security actually had offices in that block, and some of the old-timers in Mitte swear the smell clings to certain corners of the street on cold nights. If you want to lean into the spooky vibe, take the U-Bahn two stops to the St. Hedwig's Cathedral crypt, it's way older and has that same kind of quiet, heavy atmosphere.

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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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