Apartment next to a big street but windows facing an inner garden?

something nobody's mentioned yet - check the window type in the bedroom. if it's a modern tilt-and-turn with double glazing, you'll be fine. if it's those old wooden kastenfenster (double windows), they actually work great for sound but can be a pain to open. i lived on a similar setup near landsberger allee and the bedroom was dead quiet even with traffic right out front. alt-friedrichsfelde itself is alright, you've got the s-bahn to alexanderplatz in like 15 mins and the tierpark is nice for a weekend walk. just know the area's pretty sleepy, not many bars or cafes within walking distance

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you'll be fine noise-wise, the inner garden acts like a sound buffer especially on the top floor. just make sure the windows are properly sealed, old berlin windows can be drafty and let more street noise through than you'd expect. alt-friedrichsfelde itself is fine, pretty quiet at night, but the tram line on frankfurter allee nearby can be loud if you're catching it late. the area's a bit of a commute to central spots but there's a rewe and a decent bakery a few minutes walk

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One thing to check is whether the inner garden is actually private to the building or shared with neighbors. If it's shared, you might get noise from people having barbecues or parties in summer, though top floor helps. Alt-Friedrichsfelde itself is okay but there's not much in walking distance besides the Tierpark and a few shops, you'll probably end up taking the S-Bahn into Friedrichshain or Lichtenberg for anything interesting. The bedroom should be quiet enough if the windows are decent, just make sure they're not those single-pane old ones that rattle when a truck goes by.

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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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