>The name of Manteuffelstraße goes back to the politician Otto Theodor von Manteuffel (1805-1882). In his function as Prussian Minister President, he resolutely rejected the motions of the first democrats in the state parliament.
I have to say that I definitely prefer the black lesbian activist.
GIC68 on
Tbh that renaming of streets, schools, kindergartens, etc. just because a famous person or artist was acting according to the moral status of his time that doesn’t match today’s thinking is totally ridiculous.
5OOOWattBasemachine on
Even before looking this up I already knew this must be in Berlin. Stupid ass city.Â
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AvailableUsername404 on
Apart from the names itself (I don’t know who both of them are to be honest) it looks like a good practice to keep old street name for a while for people to adjust.
coffeequeer17 on
Maybe *you* only know about Anne Frank because you and those around you think it’s appropriate to joke about her death and Nazis, but her diary is assigned reading in many classes. As is learning about the Holocaust in general. We’re not going to forget it happened because edgy people can’t make insensitive jokes.
andersonfmly on
Interesting how the two visible signs are in a different order…
wickedsoloist on
Bring painter guy back.
Due_Diet4955 on
Woke Berlin FTW! /s
Thesorus on
that’s often done in many places, especially when renaming more important streets.
epochpenors on
And yet they still have Fahrtgasse
ericbana19 on
Unrelated, but I love Euro truck simulator and the exits(I guess) are labeled as Ausfahrt and as a kid(when it initially came out) I laughed every time for how it may sound.
Meslop on
Man Devil Street is a bad name anyways
CerebralMessiah on
Why name it after an American?
It’s not like Germany or Berlin lack notable people.
The city of Berlin decided to rename a part of the street but didn’t inform the people living there. So mail and packages were not delivered anymore, people needed to update their IDs and so on.
And then later, the city decided to also update the street numbers to start from 1 again.
So somebody living in Manteuffelstr. 56 was first living in Audrey Lorde Str 56 only to now live in let’s say Audrey Lorde Str 28
So the confusion is complete and there is Audrey Lorde Str with old and new numbers.
Pretty much a dick move from the city.
Solcaer on
a lot of American wehraboos in this thread
Smeghead333 on
I visited Eastern Europe in the 90s as they were adapting to life after Soviet domination. Signs like this were EVERYWHERE.
ljb2x on
A road in the town I grew up in was majorly reworked and widened. I suppose it was funded by someone local as they renamed them road to a name form the original. No one called it by that name and it only served to confuse people new to the area as we’d all call it by the original name. Finally the city just put a second sign up that said “Formerly…”.
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Girl, so confusing
From an article about the renaming:
>The name of Manteuffelstraße goes back to the politician Otto Theodor von Manteuffel (1805-1882). In his function as Prussian Minister President, he resolutely rejected the motions of the first democrats in the state parliament.
I have to say that I definitely prefer the black lesbian activist.
Tbh that renaming of streets, schools, kindergartens, etc. just because a famous person or artist was acting according to the moral status of his time that doesn’t match today’s thinking is totally ridiculous.
Even before looking this up I already knew this must be in Berlin. Stupid ass city.Â
Track changes on
Apart from the names itself (I don’t know who both of them are to be honest) it looks like a good practice to keep old street name for a while for people to adjust.
Maybe *you* only know about Anne Frank because you and those around you think it’s appropriate to joke about her death and Nazis, but her diary is assigned reading in many classes. As is learning about the Holocaust in general. We’re not going to forget it happened because edgy people can’t make insensitive jokes.
Interesting how the two visible signs are in a different order…
Bring painter guy back.
Woke Berlin FTW! /s
that’s often done in many places, especially when renaming more important streets.
And yet they still have Fahrtgasse
Unrelated, but I love Euro truck simulator and the exits(I guess) are labeled as Ausfahrt and as a kid(when it initially came out) I laughed every time for how it may sound.
Man Devil Street is a bad name anyways
Why name it after an American?
It’s not like Germany or Berlin lack notable people.
They did the [same thing in Montreal](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-amherst-atateken-1.5328561) in 2019 when they renamed Amherst street – named for Jeffry Amherst who brought smallpox to indigenous people – and named it Atateken, a Mohawk word meaning “brotherhood”.
Could be helpful for people that remember the old name
Ah there is a video about that street (in german)
https://youtu.be/oLfnRrw02RE?si=_59jUGCDKJQTJwkx
The city of Berlin decided to rename a part of the street but didn’t inform the people living there. So mail and packages were not delivered anymore, people needed to update their IDs and so on.
And then later, the city decided to also update the street numbers to start from 1 again.
So somebody living in Manteuffelstr. 56 was first living in Audrey Lorde Str 56 only to now live in let’s say Audrey Lorde Str 28
So the confusion is complete and there is Audrey Lorde Str with old and new numbers.
Pretty much a dick move from the city.
a lot of American wehraboos in this thread
I visited Eastern Europe in the 90s as they were adapting to life after Soviet domination. Signs like this were EVERYWHERE.
A road in the town I grew up in was majorly reworked and widened. I suppose it was funded by someone local as they renamed them road to a name form the original. No one called it by that name and it only served to confuse people new to the area as we’d all call it by the original name. Finally the city just put a second sign up that said “Formerly…”.