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by rob74
844 days ago
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Not sure about Berlin specifically, but many (most?) larger German cities have rules about how the house numbers should look like - after all, Germans love rules and regulations! And this is actually helpful, as it's much easier to find the house number on a house if they have a consistent look. IMHO the Munich house numbers are better than the Berlin ones, as they also include the street name and (most of the time) an arrow pointing out the numbering direction (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:House_numbers_in...). Not sure what that font is called either though... |
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I guess those qualifiers cancel each other out? Anyway. Berlin is twice as big as the second biggest city, Hamburg. Munich is the third largest city:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/cities/germany
We've gone over Berlin and Munich, here's Hamburg:
https://www.hamburg.de/contentblob/153026/31a1e4447ce01eb4b8...
- must be placed at least 180 cm above ground, near the entrance or on the side facing a public road
- if the building is too far away from a public road for the number to be recognizable, it must be placed at the entrance of the premises, no lower than 90 cm above ground
- it must be made out of a material that can withstand weathering and provides good visibility of its shape and color
- for certain buildings (office buildings?) the numbers must be illuminated to be visible in low light conditions
Here's #4 on the list, Cologne:
https://www.stadt-koeln.de/service/produkte/00930/index.html
- it must use "arabic numerals" (i.e. not Roman numerals) which must be at least 8.5cm high
- it must be visible and legible from a public road
Frankfurt am Main (#5) does not seem to specify any requirements and thus defers to Hesse, which doesn't seem to specify any requirements either.
https://frankfurt.de/themen/planen-bauen-und-wohnen/planen/s...
I'm not going to go over the rest of the list as the lesson seems clear: some cities/municipalities have strict regulations, some barely have any, size doesn't really seem to be a deciding factor.