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Potsdamer Straße Mysteries
honestly i think the guy at the kiosk was just messing with you, but there's some truth to the hidden spaces thing. potsdamer strasse runs right over old ww2 bunkers and parts of the u-bahn that were sealed off in the 60s. if you're actually curious, walk down toward kleistpark and look for the old gas meter building, there's a tiny door at street level that's always locked but has weird ventilation grates. i've heard stories about a speakeasy that operated down there in the 20s, not some artifact tho. grab another portion of that turkish delight and ask the guy again, maybe he'll slip up and give u a real street name
fwiw the turkish delight guy is a total institution around here, but the real hidden thing on potsdamer str is the old "cafe am neuen see" sign that's still painted on a wall near winterfeldtplatz, it's from the 20s and barely visible under the graffiti. i've also heard from a friend who works at the berlin underwelten museum that there's a sealed bank vault under one of the apartment buildings near yorckstrasse, not sure if it's true but they give tours of the old flak towers too. honestly just follow the smell of currywurst toward schöneberg and you'll find cooler stuff anyway
the turkish delight guy is a known character around here, he's been running that kiosk since the 90s and tells everyone the same story, i think he just likes the attention. that said, there's definitely a sealed-off section of the old potsdamer bahnhof underneath the street, you can see the outlines in the pavement if you look at the right angle. the real mystery is the bar called "zur letzten instanz" a few blocks south, it's been there since the 1600s and has a hidden room behind a bookshelf that supposedly connects to an old beer cellar. way more interesting than a dusty bunker imo
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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.