New Year's (lake) dive?

Teufelssee is the main one people know about, but there's also a smaller group that meets at Schlachtensee around 11. You'll find them near the Strandbad entrance on the south side. It's a bit more chill and less crowded than the Teufelssee crowd. The water will be around 4 or 5 degrees so don't plan on staying in long.

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i've seen people do it at weisser see in prenzlberg too, a bit more lowkey than teufelssee. there's usually a small group around 11 by the main pier, they bring a thermos of glühwein after. the water's freezing but the sauna at weisser see is open later if you want to warm up properly

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yeah there's a group that does this at teufelssee every year, meet around 10am at the u-bahn exit and walk over together. they call it the "neujahrsschwimmen" but it's more of a quick plunge than an actual swim. bring a towel and something warm to stand on after, the ground gets real cold on your feet. if teufelssee is too far, check the ddr museum facebook group they sometimes coordinate something at mitte's stadtbad too

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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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