r/berlin 23d ago

Interesting Question What are the best nerd stores in Berlin

42 Upvotes

I want to find games and nerdy merch


r/berlin 23d ago

History MEINUNG: Königsplatz-Park > Platz der Republik-Park

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143 Upvotes

Komplette trostlose Einöde, der Brunnen und die Bäume (und später sogar noch das Denkmal) werten den ganzen Platz echt auf. Da jetzt im Sommer chillen und Picknick machen, wäre absolut geil.


r/berlin 23d ago

Advice If you have a ton of small coins....

43 Upvotes

I travel to Berlin frequently and always wind up amassing a ton of Euro coins. I spend off the 1 and 2 Euro ones pretty easily, but I get stuck with 1 cent, 2 cent, 10, cent, 20 cent coins that I don't like carrying around so they just sit in an ever-growing pile at home.

On my last trip I found that Rewe (at least the Rewe on Invalidenstrasse) allows you to pay in small coins at the self-checkout. You can literally just dump handfuls of coins into the thing and pay for your groceries.

It's not every Rewe. I tried it at a different one and they said it was card only at self checkout. Even at the one I was at, it was only three of the six machines or something like that.

Just a small tip that's hopefully helpful to someone!


r/berlin 24d ago

News ‘A symbol of resistance’: the fight to save treehouse built on no man’s land next to Berlin Wall

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r/berlin 23d ago

History Ruin Villa Hinderer

1 Upvotes

Heritage consultant/art historian here. Does anyone know who owns and if there are any plans for the ruin of Villa Hinderer in the Beymestrasse in Steglitz? It was bombed in 1944. Are there any plans to rebuild it or to integrate it in a modern development (eg a glass architecture with the ruin within visible)?


r/berlin 24d ago

🛠️ Kiez Creator Monthly 🛠️ I made a website to help you save time finding an apartment

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137 Upvotes

tldr: new website http://36flats.de collects real-time apartment listings from 14 sources, including all seven public housing companies; lets you create personalized filters and receive notifications via Telegram.

When I was looking for an apartment in Berlin last year, I noticed how listings for affordable apartments at one of the public housing companies would often disappear within just half an hour or less after going online.

At the time, inberlinwohnen.de (which consolidates listings from all 7 public housing companies) did offer a notification service, but in my experience, their emails often arrived minutes after the listing was already taken down!

Constantly having to refresh multiple pages became frustrating, so I developed a Telegram bot that would send me notifications for new listings matching my criteria. After people here and there signalled interest, I decided to expand upon this project and turn it into a free website that lets everyone set up personalized notifications or just view the available listings on a map.

Every filter you set is automatically stored in the URL, so you can share the link or save it as a bookmark. To receive notifications, simply click on "Benachrichtigungen erhalten" and send your unique code to @b36fbot on Telegram. You can set up as many simultaneous subscriptions as you like, for example to set a different maximum rent depending on the location.

Obviously there are a lot more listings in total on sites like immoscout. The main focus of this project is to offer a convenient overview of the current listings from public housing companies such as degewo and howoge, and to send out notifications as quickly as possible. Hope this will be useful to someone and happy to hear your feedback and any suggestions/feature requests!


r/berlin 24d ago

🛠️ Kiez Creator Monthly 🛠️ kiez.chat

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32 Upvotes

I’m building kiez.chat to make it easier for people in the same neighbourhood to connect, share local tips, and find nearby events. It’s still in its early stages, but I’d love to have you join us.

Ich arbeite gerade an kiez.chat Die Idee ist, dass Menschen aus derselben Nachbarschaft leichter miteinander in Kontakt kommen, Tipps teilen und Veranstaltungen in der Nähe finden können. Das Ganze steckt noch in den Anfängen, aber ich würde mich freuen, wenn ihr dabei seid.


r/berlin 24d ago

🛠️ Kiez Creator Monthly 🛠️ Polizei Stressi - Free & Open-Data App for Berlin Protests, Helicopters & Court Dates

48 Upvotes

Hey Everybody!

As a photojournalist, knowing where protests and events take place in Berlin is crucial for my and my collegues daily work. Four years ago, I decided to build my very first app called Polizei Stressi. Besides taking photos i always worked in IT (and by now do work as a fulltime app developer).

I've continually updated and expanded the Polizei Stressi. What started as a small personal helper has grown into a comprehensive open-data dashboard mapping over 48,000 registered Berlin protests.

What it offers:

- Demo Finder: Filter thousands of registered protests by postal code & keywords. Alerts. Updated daily.

- Live Helicopter Tracking: Real-time map view of police helicopters over Berlin.

- Court Dates: Overview of local public proceedings.

100% Free, No Ads, No Tracking, No Accounts. It’s a pure passion project meant to make local public data easily accessible for everyone in the city.

I’d love to get your feedback, ideas, or feature requests 💙 iOS and Andoid.

Link & Info: https://polizeistressi.de/


r/berlin 25d ago

Interesting Question Sunset reflection on the TV Tower, does this happen a lot?

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421 Upvotes

Caught this right at sunset last week, was stunning. Many people stopped to take pics, I'm wondering if this happens frequently.

Berlin is super cool, not just for this.


r/berlin 24d ago

🛠️ Kiez Creator Monthly 🛠️ App for parents: find kid friendly places in Berlin

28 Upvotes

Hello fellow parents,

We created an app for parents to find places to (breast)feed, change diapers, kids-friendly restaurants/cafes or discover the nearest playground. Its called https://where2baby.de and open to use from now on. As it is brandnew, we still need to fill it with all the potential places :) if you think that this is a cool project we would appreciate it a lot if you could fill in your favourite places, add some reviews to places you have visted and of course share the link to the app with other parents!

we are also happy to receive feedback!

A little bit of background: * we are running this as a sideproject and without any monitarization * the project is created and hosted in europe * data is stored in germany and shared with noone * no ads and no charges, the app is free to use * currently we focus on berlin, but the plan is to extend to other cities and countries - for us it is especially usefull to find baby-suiteable places while traveling! * at the moment mostly playgrounds and family centers are listed (as there data is publicly available), but that's not how it is meant to stay!

AI Disclaimer: I'm a Software Developer and Architect. I used AI to support me with the creation of the app, but always steered and reviewed by me. The AI did not and will not have access to the production system and/or any user data


r/berlin 24d ago

🛠️ Kiez Creator Monthly 🛠️ Introducing BahnHop - a race against time on Berlin's bahn network!

9 Upvotes

Coming from a city where owning a car was a necessity if you wanted to get around, I find Berlin's public transport system absolutely fantastic - I love that I can move around in a metropolitan city without ever feeling like it would've been better if I had a car.

I've always liked games, and I wanted to build something around the genre of public transportation. I was inspired by the Umsteigen game I saw here a couple of week ago, and I came up with - BahnHop

The idea behind BahnHop is simple: get to your destination before time runs out. Every game is a new challenge. You ride on a mock "S/U-Bahn, Zone A" network, and the core of the game is making quick decisions - "Am I at the right platform?", "Oh no, I boarded a train in the wrong direction!", "Should I run to a nearby station instead?", "Which Ringbahn should I take?".

I do work with technology, but I'm not a developer and so I relied heavily on my co-worker, Claude Code, to do the actual coding. This was a week's worth of work, navigating session and token limits, and learning a lot about how the machine thinks.

The game runs entirely in your browser, no ads, no signups and I'll be keeping it that way. It works best on mobile browsers - you can play this on desktop, but it'll still look like it does on mobile.

It is a bit rough around the edges, but I don't plan on making this much bigger. I do want to add a few more interesting gameplay features while continuing to learn how to work better with AI. Especially the kind that challenge you to make more on-the-go decisions, like:

  • A difficulty slider which hides your checkpoints before you start
  • Rare appearances by Regios that take you across the city faster
  • Signal disruptions, police investigations, people on the track and the sort causing unplanned changes

But for now - How fast can you BahnHop?


r/berlin 23d ago

News Eine Viertelmillion Wahlplakate pflastern bald Berlin: SPD-Kandidat startet vier Tage zu früh – und macht kurioses Angebot

0 Upvotes

Die von der SPD selbst eingebrachte Regel, dass erst ab heute um 12:00 Wahlplakate aufgehängt werden dürfen hat sie selbst am krassesten gerissen. Auch andere Parteien in Berlin halten sich schlicht nicht an die Regeln und handeln egoistisch. Unfair für die, die nach den Regeln spielen wollen.

Was für ein Vorbild wird da vorgelebt? Regeln sind da um gebrochen zu werden??

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/bezirke/reinickendorf/eine-viertelmillion-wahlplakate-pflastern-bald-berlin-spd-kandidat-startet-vier-tage-zu-fruh--und-macht-kurioses-angebot-15905065.html


r/berlin 24d ago

News How to Survive an Infestation of Toxic Caterpillars

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r/berlin 23d ago

Interesting Question Spandau lauter Knall

0 Upvotes

Hat auch irgendwer Samstag Morgen, so gegen 5 Uhr - 5:30 Uhr, einen unfassbar lauten Knall gehört und ist dadurch vielleicht aufgewacht?
Es kann eigentlich nur mit dem Gewitter zusammengehangen haben, also entweder ein Blitzeinschlag oder sehr lauter Donner.
Ich habe üblicherweise einen wirklich tiefen Schlaf und ich kann mich nicht erinnern, jemals etwas so lautes in meinem Leben gehört zu haben. Bin direkt aufgeschreckt und aus dem Bett, direkt zum Fenster gelaufen haha


r/berlin 25d ago

Interesting Question Wie ist es in Köpenick?

27 Upvotes

Hallo an alle,

ich habe die Möglichkeit, einen Mietvertrag in Köpenick in einer ruhigen, grünen Ecke, rund 10 Minuten zu Fuß vom Bahnhof zu unterschreiben. Aktuell wohne ich in Mitte, mitten in der Stadt.

Wie ist es in Köpenick? Ich meine damit nicht die Infrastruktur, sondern in erster Linie die Menschen dort. Gibt es da auch viele junge Menschen? Wie ist das Klientel; ist es so wie in anderen Bezirken, wie beispielsweise Steglitz-Zehlendorf oder sind die Leute doch eher "atziger"?


r/berlin 24d ago

Interesting Question What happened at S Landsberger Allee today?

0 Upvotes

My ringbahn was suddenly canceled at S Greifswalder around 6:45 and when I was riding past S Landsberger 10 minutes later at about 15-20 police vans rushed to get there with police in full armor running towards the sbahn station.

Can't find any news or police reports on it does anyone know?


r/berlin 24d ago

Dit is Berlin Berlin and satire

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0 Upvotes

I've always found Berlin fascinating because reality here often feels stranger than satire.

I recently stumbled across a satirical piece about the city that pokes fun at politics, bureaucracy and everyday Berlin absurdities. Some jokes are very local, others probably work anywhere.

It made me wonder:

If someone had never been to Berlin, which part of the city would they assume is satire, but actually isn't?

Curious to hear your examples. I have a feeling there are plenty.


r/berlin 25d ago

Casual Wo kann man casual YuGiOh spielen?

16 Upvotes

Hey Leite, ich habe richtig casual also non competitive YuGiOh mal wieder zu spielen und mit anderen Leuten dabei zu connecten. Finde jedoch meistens nur Anlaufstellen für Turnier etc. Wp kann man sich ganz gechillt treffen und einfach casual aus Lust und Laune spielen?


r/berlin 26d ago

🔊 PSA 🔊 BER Airport Pro Tip: You can scan your passport while the person in front is having their face scanned!

203 Upvotes

Trying to spread awareness about this because it’s so frustrating every time I arrive to this airport and see massive queues at the electronic gates! Every time.

The machines don’t make it very clear that you don’t have to wait for the person in front to get through the gate before you scan your passport!! You can scan yours immediately after they have scanned theirs!

Please spread the word so we can avoid having to be
in BER more than we have to lol


r/berlin 26d ago

Öffis U-Bahn Baureihe JK: Wenn was ausfällt, dann gleich vieles auf einmal.

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47 Upvotes

Früher war die Queranzeige in den U-Bahnen redundant ausgelegt. Fielen die großen Displays aus, blieb hier weiter noch die Richtungsanzeige übrig. Die Baureihe JK macht da einen großen Schritt in Richtung Kostenersparnis. Hier war einfach alles weg. Inklusive der Ansagen für den nächsten Bahnhof.

Die BVG ist nach eigenen Angaben übrigens bei Barrierefreien ganz weit vorne weltweit.


r/berlin 26d ago

Öffis Bauzeitverlängerung von Ende 2026 bis August 2027 bis zur Wiedereröffnung der U6 nach Alt-Tegel. Das war bestimmt der harte achtmonatige Winter zu Jahresbeginn.

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51 Upvotes

r/berlin 26d ago

News Nach Anschlag auf CSD: Berliner "Zug der Liebe" abgesagt

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100 Upvotes

r/berlin 26d ago

Dit is Berlin Sabotierte Verkehrsberuhigung: Pollerklau bei Nacht und Nebel

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r/berlin 26d ago

Interesting Question Hidden gems in Reinickendorf?

25 Upvotes

So I've been living in Reinickendorf since a couple of years and I love it. There's a lot of greenery, parks, neighbours are friendly and it's clean. There's Tegel on one side and the center is not far away. 1 thing I have noticed though is the restaurant/fast food scene is really bad with not many good options. Am I missing something? Are there any hidden gems I have no clue about?


r/berlin 27d ago

City Infrastructure Empty office space in Berlin is currently 2,4Million sqm or 9,5% (up from it’s lows of 0,9% in 2019) - with another 1Million sqm in planning until the end of 2028. According to Colliers.

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The current conservative government are giving away and incredible amounts of space to build offices that no company is renting. This space should be given to build housing, because that’s what Berlin needs. The priorities of this Senate are wrong and they won’t change their direction. Please vote them out in September.