Talk:Berlin/City West

The illustration is off, I feel. The person who took the picture may have stood in Tiergarten, but Potsdamer Platz is not part of any definition I'm aware of of the City West, a concept mostly connected with places in Charlottenburg (and Wittenbergplatz, which is in Schöneberg). If the site is going to use an example in Tiergarten at all, it should probably be further away from the Wall. Polecat (talk) 21:24, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Landmarks on Ku'damm

From a caption in the "Sleep" section: "The Swissotel and Sofitel buildings are two of the few remarkable landmarks of Kurfurstendamm". They're a couple of interesting contemporary buildings, but Ku'damm is just chock full of beautiful 19th- and early 20th-century buildings along a long stretch. Some are landmarks, too - certainly, KaDeWe is, and so is the U-Bahn station at Wittenbergplatz right across the street, but there are others. Is it really a common belief that those two contemporary buildings are among the few landmarks on Ku'damm? Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:17, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

A selection of Page Banner for "City West"

Banner 1

Banner 2

Banner 3

Banner 4

Between those two choices, I do approve of the substitution, but the scaffolding is regrettable. Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:18, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Lightly regrettable, but a vast improvement. --Andrewssi2 (talk) 08:23, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the new banners! The Olympiastadion banner is interesting, but I think the closeup of the Schloss is still the best of this bunch. Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:22, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

AVUS - to list, and if so how?

AVUS goes through here and while today it is "just" a road, its history is quite interesting if you care for such things. Should it get a listing and if so which category? @Xsobev: any opinion? Hobbitschuster (talk) 21:02, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Say more about it. Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:31, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

To sum up a long story, opened in 1921 the Automobils Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße was the first "car only road" in the world and is thus sometimes called "the oldest Autobahn". It was used as a racecourse until 1998 and played host to Formula 1 once. I think there are still stands for spectators (which now obviously don't exist any more). But as I said, today it is a neither particularly challenging nor special to the casual observer highway. Hobbitschuster (talk) 10:55, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

If there's nothing interesting to see, maybe it's not worth mentioning. Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:10, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

(I'm coming from this with a position of "highways should not have been built in the first place, so take this cum grano salis) well I would certainly consider it a perfectly unremarkable if "historic" place. I'm not sure whether others would agree, however. Now if races of any kind were still held there, however sporadically, that would be a different thing, but frankly AVUS (the racetrack) has a layout that meant it was naturally going to fall by the wayside the moment "speed alone" stopped attracting spectators. It's basically two large mostly straight parts with curves at the ends... Not exactly the most interesting race track, is it now? Hobbitschuster (talk) 19:14, 24 July 2018 (UTC)