Wassertorplatz Mystery?

You're right, that spot is oddly conspicuous. I've walked through Wassertorplatz plenty of times and always assumed it was something left over from the park's redesign a few years back, maybe a failed attempt at a flower bed that just gets regular mowing out of habit. My bet is it's just the city's parks department being inconsistent, which is pretty on-brand for Berlin.

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I've noticed that spot too, and I actually asked about it at the coffee stand on the corner of Wassertorstraße a couple years ago. The guy running it said it's where the old public toilet used to be before they tore it down in the early 2000s. The ground underneath was so compacted and full of concrete rubble that nothing else would really grow there, so they just seeded it with the hardiest grass they had and left it. The perfectly manicured look is just from the mower skipping over the uneven spots around it.

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honestly i think it might be a memorial of some kind that never got a plaque. there's a few of those scattered around kreuzberg where the bezirk just kinda forgot to label things. if you look at the satellite view on google maps you can see the outline matches some old building foundations from before the park was built. prob just easier to keep mowing it than to dig it all up again

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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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