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Do you get charged a much higher auto insurance premium in Berlin compared to other German cities?
My insurer charged me about 200 euros extra for auto insurance and said that it's because I moved to a different postal code (wedding, Berlin). I was in Düsseldorf earlier.
Any idea if premiums… All,
My insurer charged me about 200 euros extra for auto insurance and said that it's because I moved to a different postal code (wedding, Berlin). I was in Düsseldorf earlier.
Any idea if premiums are higher for Berlin with everything else the same, compared to other cities?
Wedding's basically notorious for high claims rates, so that 200 bump sounds about right. Might be worth checking if your SF class transferred properly from Dusseldorf, sometimes they mess that up and it's an easy fix.
yeah Berlin is definitely more expensive than most cities for car insurance, wedding especially has some of the highest rates in the city tbh. the regionalklasse for berlin overall is usually 12-13 out of 16, while düsseldorf is more like 7-8. wedding is considered high risk for claims so that's why they hit u with the extra 200. if u want to save a bit, check if you can switch to a teilkasko only or try a direct insurer like huk24, they're sometimes a bit cheaper for berlin addresses than the traditional ones
honestly yeah, the regionalklasse here is brutal. wedding is in the highest risk tier for berlin, so you're basically paying the city tax on top of the district tax. if you can, try switching to a tariff that calculates based on mileage or a telematics thing, sometimes that offsets the location penalty a bit
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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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.
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