🌤️ Guten Morgen, Berlin!
Here’s your quick update on what’s happening around the city on Sunday, August 24 - from urgent alerts to stories in the subreddit. Let’s dive in.
🇩🇪 A100 free, Elsenbrücke bridge closed: Why Treptow can expect more traffic
Berlin’s controversial 3.2 km A100 extension between Neukölln and Treptower Park opens this Wednesday after 12 years and €720m of construction. Authorities say it will ease local streets and improve links to the A113, BER and Adlershof, but the unfinished Elsenbrücke (not due before 2028) and planned traffic metering risk shifting or increasing congestion; a further 17th section is already being planned. (rbb24, 3 minute read)
🇩🇪 Reinickendorf: Unknown man chokes 52-year-old unconscious in pub
A 52-year-old man who tried to break up a dispute in a pub on Auguste-Viktoria-Allee in Berlin-Reinickendorf was grabbed by an unknown assailant and strangled unconscious around 10:20 p.m.; the attacker fled after the victim’s wife intervened. The man was admitted to hospital with a fractured larynx, and police are searching for the suspect. (Berliner Zeitung, 1 minute read)
🇩🇪 "Open hostility towards Christianity": Catholic Church deplores vandalism
Germany’s Catholic Church warns of escalating, brutal vandalism of churches: since about 2015 attackers have left excrement in holy water, decapitated statues, destroyed altars and set altar images alight. Police record these as property damage, but believers see attacks on Christianity; sociologists cite rising anti‑religious sentiment, yet churches remain open as places of worship and memory. (Berliner Zeitung, 2 minute read)
⚡ Quick Hits
🇩🇪 Looking for three-room apartment, offering 1,000 euros finder's fee (rbb24, 4 minute read)
🇬🇧 Racist Berlin street name changed after legal battle (Deutsche Welle (DW), 4 minute read)
🇩🇪 How to get to the concert at Tempelhofer Feld: What visitors need to know (Berliner Zeitung, 1 minute read)
🇩🇪 Bundesliga debutant Ansah excels in Union Berlin's opening win (rbb24, 4 minute read)
🇩🇪 The woman who slices out the ideal sound (rbb24, 3 minute read)
📅 Events Today (from berlin.de)
🎟️ Open Day of the German Federal Government | August 23 and 24, 2025 | For one weekend per year, the Federal Chancellery, the Press and Information Office and the Federal Ministries invite all citizens to take a look behind the scenes of political Berlin.
🎟️ Beach Dodgeball World Championship | August 22 - 24, 2025 | The Beach Dodgeball World Championship at Park am Gleisdreieck does not differentiate between professionals and amateurs, but only between peoples.
🎟️ Thai Rice Festival | August 23 and 24, 2025 | Thailand serves up. At the Thai Rice Festival on the terrace of Loretta am Wannsee, the focus is on rice products.
💬 What Berliners Are Talking About (from r/berlin)
🗣️ BVG cop spit on me, pushed me, and cursed at me. How can I report? - Commenters urge filing a police report, alerting BVG, and securing camera footage.
🗣️ Cant remember this Cafe I went to last year in Schoeneberg, and ideas? - Community helps identify a cozy Schöneberg cafe—likely Bilderbuch, currently closed.
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