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Am I allowed to vote on February 11 as a EU citizen?
Can I vote on February 11? I am an EU citizen and im registered at my local citizens office (Bürgeramt)
Can I vote on February 11?
if you're registered you're probably good but double check what kind of election it is - feb 11 could be a bezirkswahl or maybe a volksentscheid thing in your kiez. eu citizens can vote in bezirksverordnetenversammlung elections but not in bundestag or landtag stuff. peek at the wahlinfo on the berlin.de site for your district to be sure
You're fine to vote in the Abgeordnetenhaus and BVV elections on the 11th. One thing people sometimes miss is that you can vote at any polling station in your borough, not just the one on your Wahlbenachrichtigung, as long as you bring that card and your ID. If you lost the card or it never showed up, just hit your Burgeramt before Friday to get a replacement, the lines are shorter in the morning.
If you're registered at the Bürgeramt and on the electoral roll, you can vote in the EU local elections (Bezirksverordnetenversammlung) but not in the Abgeordnetenhauswahl, that's for German citizens only. February 11 is just a repeat in a few districts like Pankow and Mitte where they had ballot paper issues in September. Check the Landeswahlleiter site to see if your specific polling station is involved, otherwise you'll have to wait for the next regular election.
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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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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.