Krankenhaus Chaos?

yeah that fish tank is basically a berlin institution at this point, i swear they have a contract with some lone fish guy who maintains them all. the waiting room is the same for everyone but the actual treatment areas are way more boring, just chairs and a tv playing rtl at low volume.

if you ever need to avoid the chaos again, the emergency department at st. gertrauden in wilmersdorf is smaller and usually way less crowded. no fish tank though, just a sad peace lily.

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that fish tank is honestly a rite of passage at this point, everyone who's been to virchow or wedding's emergency room has stared into it while waiting for three hours. the actual patient treatment areas are more functional, just curtains and beeping machines, nothing as weirdly captivating as that tank. if you ever need to go again and want a less surreal wait, try the emergency practice at meinekestraße instead, it's usually calmer and no fish

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I think you might have been in the regular emergency waiting area. The kids' section in the emergency room is actually separate, with smaller chairs and some toys, but it's usually just as packed on a weekend. The fish tank is a landmark, everyone talks about it. If you ever need to go again, try the emergency room at Charite Mitte instead, the waiting area has way more light and the fish tank there isn't quite as unsettling.

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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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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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