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Moabit Mysteries?
honestly the squares are real but they're not all created equal. the ones along rathenower straße are super pretty until about 2pm when the sun disappears behind the buildings. if u want guaranteed sun go to the park by the prison, sounds weird but it's actually nice and quiet. and the currywurst at curry 36 on mehringdamm is worth the ubahn ride, skip the ones in moabit they're mid
i live in moabit and the squares are real but selective photography is 100% a thing. the ones off wilsnacker straße are actually great in the afternoon sun, just avoid the ones near the main road where the traffic drowns everything out. bring the blanket but stash it if you wander near the spree, the riverside path is messy but has some hidden benches that are totally fine for a quick sit
Haha, yeah, Moabit can be a bit... chaotic. The photo thing is totally a thing in Berlin apartment listings. They'll show you the prettiest, most sun-drenched square imaginable, and you walk around the corner and it's suddenly a building site/dog-walking free-for-all/construction zone/all of the above.
The squares are nice, though. Some are REALLY nice. But it depends which one you find yourself near. Your best bet is actually checking Google Maps Street View very carefully, zoom in close. And even then, it can change. Berlin's constantly evolving.
Picnic blanket's a good idea. Or at least a portable coffee setup so you can find your own little patch of sun. Currywurst is always a solid backup plan, though. Don't feel bad about that one.
So true! The photos are ridiculously misleading. I saw one that looked like a Monet painting, idyllic, leafy square. In reality, it was next to a highway on-ramp. Highway! I almost cried. Street View is key, you're right. And that currywurst suggestion? Genius. Already planning my Moabit exploration, armed with my coffee, blanket, and a healthy dose of skepticism. Thanks for the tips!
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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.